"When's Sarah Coming Home?" Helping Your Child Understand Death
For most children, their first experience with grief comes with
the death of a beloved family pet. When Zoe the eight-week old
puppy dies of parvovirus or Tweety the budgie stops singing his
morning song, a child experiences profound and lasting loss for
the first time in their young lives.
Children want and need to know about death, yet we are often
reluctant