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Books about grief for children

How books can help children explore grief and bereavement

Advice, Blog
Reading stories that are based on grief to children can be a really good way of helping them to explore feelings and emotions around loss. Through encouragement and questions, you can help your child to explore how the characters are behaving and feeling and enable them to see similarities, or differences, ...

How can social media impact a bereaved child?

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Social media is so much a part of everybody’s lives today, especially children and young people. When you’re bereaved it can be helpful but it can also raise challenges. It can provide networks of support Social media can provide a support network, whether that’s your family and friends or support groups of ...

Being Mum and Dad on Father’s Day

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Through his Doodle Diary, our new Ambassador Gary Andrews tells us about being Mum and Dad on Father's Day after the unexpected death of his wife Joy, aged just 41, in 2017 left him the sole parent to their two children Lily and Ben, who were just 10 and seven ...

Growing Hope: our gardening group for bereaved children in Gloucester

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Through the therapeutic benefits of gardening, Growing Hope offers a nourishing space which feeds both the emotional and physical well-being of bereaved children, enabling them to meet other children of similar ages who have experienced bereavement and create small networks of support. By gardening together with the support of an ...
How to prepare a child for the death of a parent by cancer

How to talk to a bereaved child

Advice, Blog, News
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week. The following blog post is an extract from our podcast on the importance of conversation. It features Debbie and Gemma in the South West team. You can listen to the podcast below.   For Parents and Carers When somebody dies sometimes people just don’t know ...
Teenage boy looking sad while listening to music

When someone in your family dies by suicide

Advice
It can feel hard to find the right words to talk about suicide. Why is this? Because every life lost to suicide is as unique as the person who died and what words feel right for one family often don’t feel right for another. Whether the death of their important ...
Parent sitting on the the bed talking on the phone and looking at laptop. Son sitting behind facing away.

How to answer difficult questions about a bereavement

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Children and young people will often have lots of questions after the death of somebody close to them. Sometimes, those questions are difficult to answer. How do you answer those questions? Emma and Gemma, from our Bereavement Support Team, discuss these situations and how you can answer the difficult questions from ...
Young child hugging older dad

How to prepare a child for the death of a parent by cancer

Advice
It will inevitably be very difficult for children and young people when a parent has cancer and may die. From having open and honest conversations to building memories, there are a number of ways you can prepare a child for the death of a parent by cancer. If there is another ...
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