Being with someone who is grieving is an inevitable part of life and it is a gift to your child to guide them in how to navigate this experience.
You may feel awkward talking with someone grieving because you are afraid you will mishandle it.You can guide your child to be with someone grieving by role-playing and talking out their feelings.
The most important thing that you can do to help guide your child in talking with a grieving peer is to sort out your own feelings about death and loss and perhaps the particular loss your child’s friend is experiencing. That loss might be of someone you also know or it might be stirring emotionally because it taps into deep fears of your own, like the death of another parent might.
Help your child remember that their friend is still their friend and usually wants not to be treated specially or made a big fuss over. They may not want to be “different” in this way from everybody else. They may not want this loss to be the only thing people think of when they see them. This could be expanded by asking your child how they think their friend is doing and what they might guess their friend would want and suggesting whether this guess turns out to be on target or not.
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