Trying to be brave won t make it easier on them. People need to grieve when losing someone they love. So don t hold it in, because that will only be teaching your children to do the same. Don t go into graphic detail about the circumstances. Every night on TV people are shot in the head, suffer massive heart attacks and drown in rivers, and that s just on the news.
Children are witnesses to atrocities every day for the sake of entertainment.
It s sad to think, but in this society no one is really born innocent anymore. Give your child enough facts so that they know what has happened. Even small questions can turn into massive queries over time. The world of a child is very small. When someone suddenly disappears from that world, everything else is affected.