How would you help a child cope with the death of their only parent?

Question

Specifically, children around the age of 12.

Answer 1

I'd show them Scripture that gives us hope and promises for eternity.Psychology has no answers.

Answer 2

What Does Grieving Mean?

http://kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/emotio...

When someone we love dies, it hurts us. We feel sad that the person will no longer be around to talk to or to have fun with. That absence leaves a big hole in our lives. Maybe you had a pet that died. Remember the first few times you walked into the house after your dog or cat was gone? It was strange not to have your pet there. Maybe you cried — that's OK. We need to mourn, or grieve, over losing people and animals and other things we love.

But just like when you skin your knee, the first, intense pain will go away after a while. It takes time for your knee to heal, but it hurts less and less each day. It's the same when somebody dies. That doesn't mean we forget or stop missing people who died. After a while, we can go back to our lives, still loving them and remembering them always.

Remembering people we love who have died is one way to keep them a part of us. Pictures help us do this. Looking at a photo album can help us remember fun times we had together. Lots of families bury the bodies of loved ones in a cemetery. Then they can go and visit someone's grave. It's not that they think of the dead person as really being there, but it is a special place to go and think about how much that person meant to them.

ME!

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Answer 3

tell them that it was their time to go and that people come and go every day but that doesn't mean that they don't love them and that it wasn't their fault it was just their time i went through the same exact thing 2 years ago and i'm so mad still but i know now that people were here for a reason.