Death and grief in childhood, talk open to the community
Tools to talk about death and accompany childhoods in grieving is the name of a day that will take place next Saturday, March 14 in Melo.
This is an activity open to the community that has limited spaces. For more information, interested parties should contact the following contact numbers: 098 111 537 or 092 738 329.
“In general, we do not have many opportunities to talk about death linked to the world of children because death is a taboo topic and it is very difficult for us to associate that at some point we have to talk about the subject with children. The family in general should do it as an everyday topic” held the Social Worker Jeniffer Cardozo.
“In this talk, what we are going to do is bring updated information, with scientific evidence, but in a simpler way precisely about this: how we can talk about death preventively, that is, before they have to go through grief and how we can accompany them when they have to go through grief.” advancement. “Girls and boys do not experience grief in the same way as adults, so many times we measure grief in them in a different way because due to their development they experience it in a different way. Being able to observe this will help us prevent a lot of things and provide appropriate support.” said to THE DIARY PROFESSIONAL.
“We talk about prevention because later, in adults, a lot of issues appear that have to do with non-integrated grief. This can be prevented when we talk about death in time, when we explain what it is in its language, in its form, taking into account the circumstances of death in cases where grief is already going through. That is why we talk about prevention, because we seek to bring safe, clear and appropriate information to the stage of life that is being experienced, but also thinking about the future, thinking about what “They are going to need it for times when perhaps we cannot accompany them or when they need more resources than we can provide them.” said the grief expert.
FROM BIRTH
“Just as we announce to a baby that mom has arrived, that dad has arrived or that we are going to change his diaper, we know that he is not going to answer us, but he is going to make us smile, in the same way we have to talk to them about death according to their age” Cardozo suggested.
“From birth, from the moment they have contact with us, if a death occurs or if we find a dead animal in the yard of the house, we can begin to use the word death. More than anything, it is also a training for us who do not use that term in that sense but in another sense, with another lesser weight. We must begin to get used to talking about death, to encountering that topic. There is no age to talk about death.” he emphasized.
He said that some authors state that children are born without fear of death. “In fact, when they talk to us naturally about death, we get scared, we get scared. Sometimes we give them the news and for them it is natural. They start to be afraid when we don’t talk about it, when we make strange faces, when we don’t let them play pretending to die, when we don’t answer questions they ask us to understand reality.” said Jennifer Cardozo.
LIMITED QUOTES
The activity has registration with an economical cost that is very accessible to everyone taking into account the topic that will be addressed and the material that will be delivered to the participants.
“It is a 2-hour meeting, from 9:30 to 11:30, which will take place on Saturday, March 14 at the Mis Raíces Garden in Melo” confirmed.
“The places are very limited, there are already people registered. We invite everyone to this activity that is unique in the department that we have been putting together with a local Psychologist –Caro Noble- who works in the department, knows the area and knows the importance of bringing up these issues. Together, in an interdisciplinary way we will be addressing this issue” hill.
