River: Children's Grief Awareness Day

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.

( Notes & links, as usual )

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