River: Children's Grief Awareness Day

[mdlbear]

I found out a few days ago that the Thursday before US!Thanksgiving is Children's Grief Awareness Day, and that November is Children's Grief Awareness Month. I wish that information had been around nineteen years ago -- I didn't find out until years later how deeply losing Amethyst had affected Chaos, who was five years old at the time.

... and this morning I came across a couple of articles pointing out that Grieving Our Pets is Normal, too, and Why We Need to Take Pet Loss Seriously. Done that. I could have used that information in 2015. That was about when I started burning out at my last job; I wonder now whether there was a connection.

I don't know why I'm so sensitive to other people's grief. I don't really need to, I guess.

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@ What to Say When Someone Dies @ About Children's Grief Awareness Day Thursday before Thanksgiving. Children's Grief Awareness Day Children's Grief Awareness Day: 64 Six-Word Stories - What's Your Grief National Alliance for Grieving Children November is Children's Grief Awareness Month November is Children's Grief Awareness Month - Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan Child bereavement - Wikipedia Good Grief @ Why We Need to Take Pet Loss Seriously - Scientific American Lorde and Sia’s Moving Posts Remind Us That Grieving Our Pets is Normal | KQED

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Comments

[madfilkentist]

I really don't understand people who think that the loss of a pet isn't a serious matter. Fortunately, I don't run into a lot of them.