| the best things you could do to prepare your children | | | | be, too. 2.) Try talking with your children about the |
| for the prospect of death is to discuss about it with | | | | Cycle of Life. Bear in mind to keep the conversation |
| them ahead of time. It is important that you teach your | | | | light and easy initially, offering your children adequate |
| kids that dying is merely an aspect of one’s life | | | | opportunities to ask questions. Consider talking about |
| and at one point or another you and your children | | | | dying and death with them at a time that you could |
| would be faced with death. So it is essential to help | | | | naturally mix and blend it into part of your conversation. |
| them be comfortable with the issue. Some cultures in | | | | Consider an instance when the leaves change colors |
| fact welcome and embrace the subject of dying and | | | | in the fall, and then die off only to grow back during |
| can see it as an opportunity for new life and re-birth. | | | | spring time. |
| Your approach to the subject may differ a little | | | | 3.) Be honest and open about feelings. It is very helpful |
| depending on your spiritual beliefs. | | | | that you let your children know and understand that |
| It is very significant that you really consider your | | | | death could be sad, and let them know that |
| emotional and spiritual beliefs about dying and death | | | | you’re also sad if that happens. Several parents |
| and come to entirely embrace them before even | | | | have a natural instinct to guard and shield their children |
| opening the topic with your kids. This would assist you | | | | from the grief and sorrow related with dying, but this |
| facilitate a more clear-cut and impacting discussion | | | | could actually be harmful. It is essential that kids learn |
| when the time comes to converse about death and | | | | how to express themselves honestly and openly and |
| dying. Here are some tips for introducing the topic with | | | | let them learn how to release their feelings and |
| your children. 1.) Acknowledge your own emotions and | | | | emotions if necessary. Instead of focusing on the |
| feelings. In order for your kids to accept dying, you | | | | emotional or spiritual aspects of dying and death, they |
| must first come to terms with it. Take some time to | | | | might want to know more about the technicalities, such |
| evaluate and examine your own emotions and be | | | | as how a person is buried and where you will go. |
| more comfortable with the topic before introducing it | | | | Just remember when teaching children about dying |
| with your children. | | | | and death, their initial reactions or responses might be |
| Children are very sensitive and they may likely to pick | | | | very different or far from what you expect. Consider |
| up on your emotional cues about death, hence, if you | | | | that this is perfectly normal and natural. |
| are not comfortable with the subject, they are likely to | | | | |