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How Do We Tell Children: Helping Children Understand and Cope When Someone Dies

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Authored by Dan Schaefer and Christine Lyons

Written by a former funeral home director who dealt with thousands of families, this book helps adults understand how to talk with children openly about death.  Covers age range from 2 to teenager.  Helpful for adults to understand what children can and cannot grasp at certain developmental stages but it is not a textbook.

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Grief, Adults

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