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Scared To Death To Talk To Your Kids About Death? Here's Why

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One of the realities of living through the coronavirus period is that death is coming ever closer to our social circles. Research demonstrates that parents tend to avoid talking to their children about death until forced to by the death of a specific person in the child’s life.

It makes sense that parents tend to do this – death is an uncomfortable topic. I asked parents in my Targeted Parenting classes to explain their reluctance to discuss death with their children.

Here are two typical responses: It’s like death is a scary monster that was looming in the distance. There were so many more pressing things to talk to my kids about – stranger danger, bullying, good touch/bad touch – and I made sure to talk to them about those topics.

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