Aug 6, 2025
Had a long talk with my partner about how if I could only choose one thing to add to the curriculum of grades 6-12, it would be to talk about grief.
Children and teens need to know about it. They need to know they will feel it about so many other things besides when a person dies. They need to know about societal trauma caused by events.
They need to know about the devastation they can feel from their life maybe not being what they imagined it to be. And how to only do the things they *can* control. How to use coping mechanisms for that grief. How to continue life through that grief (dbt methods/hobbies/limits on bad news).
They need to learn about grief.
