How do I help my daughters deal with the death of their best friend from cancer?!
Question: Be there for them, be honest and available, do not discount any of their feelings. If they do not want to talk about it don't push it, if they refuse to talk about it and start to partake in selfdistructive behaviors get them help. There are also support groups for this kind of thing, see if their school would support one.
Answers: Be there for them, be honest and available, do not discount any of their feelings. If they do not want to talk about it don't push it, if they refuse to talk about it and start to partake in selfdistructive behaviors get them help. There are also support groups for this kind of thing, see if their school would support one.
Take them to fun activities that won't make them concentrate on their friend.
let them go to the funeral, ask them if they are okay, maybe take them out to eat someplace they enjoy or do something with them, let them have a pet... there isn't a good cure for such a thing, all you can really do is help them enjoy life again and get back into the swing of things, but also allow them to grieve
Explain that she isn't gone. She will always be with them and a part of them and who they are. My friend died when I was little. That helped to not think of her as "gone."
be normal i kinda had the same situation when i read this i felt very emotional and remembered how i used to get really sad when my parents were being extremely nice and weird so just be normal
they should be happy that they r alive.
Get them together to talk. It is okay to cry. Perhaps they have other friends that need to do this. Have them over to the house with iced tea and a talkathon. Encourage your daughters to talk, cry and even get support from others. They need to know that their feelings are normal. They can talk about their friend, their memories of her and activities with her, what they would miss about her, how their lives are changed with her not being in the picture. Tell them to talk to a picture of her, or something like this as a release. Eventually, they will do better and not need to do this. It is the pushing down of these feelings that actually makes the pain go on much longer. Good luck.
Explain that their bestfriend is living a normal life but you just dont know it, shes watching down. Shes not gone she is i a better place. And theyll be seeing her too.