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Monthly archive for August 2013

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Talking to Preschoolers About Death

On August 17, 2013   /   Faith, Grief, Motherhood, Uncategorized   /   1 Comment

I knew it was waiting for me. The day my children would ask me about death–and more specifically, why their maternal grandmother died. I didn’t think it would come quite so soon. But along came the questions, at bedtime a few weeks ago. “Mama, where’s your Mommy?”

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