Everyone experiences loss and grief – but that doesn’t make it any easier to talk with kids about it

Parents and educators sometimes avoid having conversations about grief with children because they don’t know what to say. Here are some tips for how to approach it.

By: Keisha M. Wint, Binghamton University, State University of New York, The Conversation

Outlets: The Conversation

Published: June 23, 2026

Words: 1,316

Last Updated: 1 month ago

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By Keisha M. Wint, Binghamton University, State University of New York

When I was a school social worker, a teary-eyed father once came to the school to tell his 4-year-old daughter’s teacher that the child’s mother had been in an accident. He did not speak to his child as she looked on but simply relayed pickup arrangements to the teacher, before he hurried to the hospital.

One of my roles at this time, in 2015, …

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