You don’t need a plan or a script tonight, just a few honest sentences you can say out loud, right when it counts.
“It's okay that this still hurts, even after some time has passed.”
“You get to remember them any way you want to.”
“I miss them too, and I'm glad we get to miss them together.”
Letting grief stay as long as it needs to, instead of rushing past it, is what actually helps a child carry it.
In their story, the grief gets to stay as long as it needs to, and the memory of who's gone becomes something the character actually carries with them, heavy and good at once.
It ends in a quiet warmth. The person who's gone is still gone, but part of them lives on in something your child's character now holds onto.
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