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6 important tips for talking to kids about death and loss.

Talking to children about death and loss is never easy. While there is no right and wrong way to go about it, this article published on Procter & Gamble’s P&G Everyday website offers 6 tips for tackling difficult subjects.

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“Every child is uniquely different and every situation about death is unique,” says psychologist Daria M. Brezinski, who has helped clients through death and loss for 35 years. “The only reliable method of assisting children is to listen to how much interest they have, how much knowledge, and how much they really want to know — instead of imposing our adult attitudes, beliefs, and justifications onto them.”

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