When children experience loss, their ability to navigate through the waters of deep emotions they might not yet totally understand can be complicated. That said, the way children experience and manage loss isn’t necessarily the same as adults.

“For adults, when we’re grieving, it’s like we’re standing in a river, and it’s intense and overwhelming, and for children, it’s like puddle jumping,” said Ceilidh Eaton, Lecturer in the Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University and developer of children’s grief activity books with KidsGrief.ca . “When they’re in the puddle, it’s no different from the river. It’s just as intense. It’s just as confusing, complex, overwhelming. But they do it in shorter bursts, and they kind of have a recess in between.”

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