Parent Response Adults may find adolescence the most difficult age to help through the grief process. Warning signs for parents are a drastic change in personality or the use of drugs and alcohol after a death. E.T. About concerns you have. Keep the lines of communication open by scheduling activities together. Be as honest as possible about how you are feeling.
Parents can help adolescents heal from grief by sharing their own grief process.
Pre-School to Age 8 Bartoli, Jennifer. Death of a grandmother. When Violet Died. Funeral preparations and ceremony for a bird. Discusses plant, animal and human death as well as how people react.