TAKE NOTE: NORMAL RESPONSES FOR A GRIEVING CHILD

Many grieving children will do well when grieving.

The normal behaviors for a grieving child are:

• Sadness
• Displaying a need for some privacy, during which they will need to sort out their own thoughts
  and put together their understanding of how things have changed in their life.
• Irritability,abrupt reactions that are new behaviors.
• Tears, often shed in privacy, when they are sure no one is watching.
• Activity, a higher levelof activity, that expresses the energy from the complex feelings they experience.
• Expressions of anger and frustration.
• Moodiness
• Clinging, or an unusual need for reassurance.