When A Loved One Transitions: How To Teach Young Children About Death

Life is a series of transitions, from one stage to the next, infancy, toddlerhood, childhood, adolescence, and finally adulthood. Adulthood is a series of transitions as well, with each experience creating a life lesson that leads to greater wisdom. At the end of our journey we transition to - where? What parents teach children about the purpose of life can determine whether or not each death they experience is an emotional trauma. Are children led to believe that someone’s death is “punishment” from God? Will children live lives of fear, shame and guilt or will they live lives of joy, creativity and self fulfillment? Today we’ll examine beliefs about life and death and how we can empower the next generation to remove the shackles of long time misteachings about death so that our children can grow into adults that  live life fearlessly.