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I wrote this to help other parents understand the mourning process and anger that children will deal with after such a powerful loss. Even years later I still see signs of him mourning his father's death. I hope this book is useful for you. As my son would say, "It is a forever wound!"

TINY HEARTS BIG WOUNDS
If your child were to fall and cut their knee would you throw them in their room, close the door and wait for it to heal? No, you would comfort your child, clean the wound and tell them everything will be all right. You would nurse the wound and change the dressing. Layer by layer the wound would heal and day-by-day your child would forget about the initial fall.

The death of a parent is the most severe wound a child can experience. Only now can I say if allowed to mourn his or her loss a child can heal, not completely though as no one really can after such a deep loss. Not discussing a death can be more painful than the actual death. Death happens in the blink of an eye, the crash of a car or the completion of a heartbeat. No matter how someone dies, you must talk about it in order for one to heal, especially a child.

My estranged husband had not seen our son for over a year when I received word he died of a heart attack. It sickened me I would have to tell my six-year-old son, that the father he already mourned, as a child does when a parent leaves, was gone forever.

The conversations that follow took place between my son and I the year following his father’s death. My hope is in sharing the stages of my son’s mourning another child will realize the feelings they are experiencing are normal. I also want parents to be aware their children’s behavior, even months after their loss, is most definitely connected.

“A Forever Wound” Day 1
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