Key points

The more momentos a child has access to of their late parent's, the more comfort it can provide.

Children need to still grow up feeling connected to their late parent.

Gathering all the photos and voice recordings for the grieving child can help post parental death.

When a parent dies, children feel the pain differently than surrounding adults do. A parent is the whole world to a child, so to have this bond suddenly stop forming instills a deep sadness. After all, they have bonded with their parent since they were born, and are used to exploring the big world with them. Now suddenly they have to try to figure out how to navigate moving forward without their parent. This is not easy for a child to do.

One of the most important tasks surviving family members can take on to he

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