When Someone Your Child Loves Dies: A Guide from the Fred Rogers Center (PDF)

URL: https://www.fredrogerscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/exceladocument.pdf

This guidance from Fred Rogers provides tips on how to talk to your child about death, alerts you to common reactions that you may see while your child grieves and gives strategies for how to support your child.

Also helpful is When Difficult Things Happen, A guide from the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media (PDF) for supporting children through hard moments in life.

Another article specifically addresses the loss or death of a teacher, When Children Lose a Teacher, Karen Nemeth, January 2022.