Charlene White Instagram – I often think that because I lost a parent so young, I’m never apprehensive about discussing death with others, writes Charlene White.
“The loss never really leaves you after the person who grew you for nine months passes away. You recover a bit in time, but you never really recover.
“It’s for this reason that I talk so openly with my kids about death, loss, and serious illness. Not because I want them to have a morbid view of the world, or because I want them to have some weird obsession with death, but because having a healthy, open approach to the realities of loss and grief can be freeing in so many ways. Even for children.
“I want them to understand that loss is something that we can’t control, and that anger isn’t the only emotion we can feel in that grief – that feeling joy when we remember that person is okay too.”
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