Child death anxiety can happen when your pet dies. How to talk about death with a child? These mindfulness and gentle parenting tips will help. My child's pet budgie died and this is how my four-year-old child reacted to learning about death.

Watch to learn how to teach emotional intelligence, strength and resilience for children. If your child is anxious about death and their own death since their pet or a loved one died (child death anxiety), they will need your support to work through and overcome their negative emotions.

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   • Mindful Parenting (CHILD CRYING & ANX...  . “Mommy, Sunny is sleeping on the floor.” Apparently, ready or not, I was going to have a conversation about death. With my four year old. In just a moment, I’ll tell you how I handled the entire episode (spoiler: poorly, at first, and then better afterwards), but before we get into that, let’s take a moment to talk about fear and anxiety. Many of the women I meet are nervous about labour and birth — which is totally normal. If you’ve never experienced labour, you don’t know what to expect, and that’s scary. Fear comes from something, and if you’re feeling anxious about your birth, it’s worth taking the time to explore what’s causing those feelings. In Hypnobirth Like a Boss, you’ll find the tools and techniques you need to get to the root of that fear and move past it so that you can have a beautiful, meaningful birth. If your fear of labour feels extreme — for example, if you’re considering scheduling a C-section to avoid going through labour and childbirth — that fear could be an inherited phobia. In other words, it’s entirely possible that a woman somewhere in your family history went through a traumatic experience, and you carry the memories of that. If that sounds like you, you can contact me or other maternal healthcare professional to consider mindset coaching.
Just as your own fear and anxiety can come from the way you were parented — or even inherited from your family and carried within you — you can also pass on fear and insecurity to your children. If you feel frustrated, insecure or anxious about any part of being a parent, there is so much you can do to make change from within so you can be a more mindful parent.
My first instinct was to delay the inevitable. When I’d pulled myself together, I sat down with Bibi and told her, gently, that Sunny wasn’t actually sleeping. In our family, we talk about energy — the mind and body are connected, and without the energy of the mind, the body cannot function — so I told her that “Sunny’s body just doesn’t work anymore”, and her energy, her soul had left.
Your family may be religious, spiritual, agnostic, or something else, and your explanation can be in keeping with your beliefs and values. It’s less about the words and more about being consistent in your message. They’ll ask again and again because they want confirmation, to be sure and it’s a normal part of their learning. So keep the facts simple and use the same turn of phrases and explanations. Be consistent between each conversation you have and like perfect partners in crime, you and your partner have to stick to the same story too - or if you have different stories, just be upfront and matter-of-fact about that too.

We let ourselves feel that sadness and didn’t try to rush through it. And then, inevitably the real bombshell landed…

Bibi asked me if she was going to die. One of the things you need to know about parenting is that sometimes, your kids will ask you questions and you won’t know the answers. Get okay with saying, “I don’t know. Let’s think about that.” Get okay with taking the time to consider your answer carefully, to ask people for help, and to ensure that you and your partner are consistent in your message. I told Bibi that everyone dies. I weave into our mundane conversations little teachings about the impermanence of things, of time, of form.

Impermanence is what makes all things, moments, people precious. When we forget to live in the moment, we forget to cherish what matters most in life. This is why we practice mindfulness together.

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