Prepare for the Inevitable: The Guide to Grief for Parents of Tweens and Teens

About this episode

This episode discusses how to navigate conversations about grief and loss with tweens and teens, especially in the context of serious illness or death in the family.

Ask Rachel anything Parenting tweens and teens is challenging enough, but when someone in the family becomes seriously ill or dies, it can feel overwhelmingly difficult. In all honesty, we Westerners are terrible at talking about death, often avoiding it, so when it comes to talking with teenagers about the subject most of us don't feel equipped. Many who have suffered a loss, or are suffering a serious illness will tell you that friends often fall away just at the time when they are most va...

People in this episode

Host: Rachel Richards

Topics covered

• grief
• parenting
• teenagers
• loss
• communication
• mental health

Keywords

• grief
• parenting
• teens
• loss
• serious illness
• communication
• mental health

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