As you may know, from the last post, my mother-in-law (Nancy) was buried last week. The formality of family gathering, planning, attending a Wake, performing the ceremony, and laying her in the ground, was relatively new to my kids. My boys, who are older, slightly remember their great grandparents passing, but they were quite young. […]
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Taking the Kids to a Funeral
Death and kids don’t always go well together, but it is something that happens, no matter how much we’d like to shield our kids from it. It is important to allow them the opportunity to grieve as much as you need that yourself. Grieving is a healthy thing. In ancient times they would stop everything […]