The older one holds it in. I'm hoping this will help a little. The younger boy talks more but still really misses his mother. It's so hard for them. Many of the parents said the children did not want to come to the camp and gave their parents a hard time the first day, but most said by Tuesday, the second day, the children were excited and eager to head over to Shelter Island.
Nobody is different.
At school and at home, these kids are different from the other children. But here they are all the same. An invaluable sense of comfort emerges from that sense of kinship that eventually allows the children to express and deal with their grief. They are so young they don't know what to do with their feelings and this camp gives them a tool for opening up. It will help later on even if we don't see immediate results.