Children and Grief – Intuitive Understanding

Do boys and girls grieve differently?

Tammy Adams — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 19:50:17 +0000

In this guest blog I am sharing the wisdom of Grief Recovery Specialist, Russell Friedman, from The Grief Recovery Institute. I hope you find this blog helpful. Just the other day, I gave radio interview number 1,485 on the topic of grief recovery or people’s reaction to loss and what to do about it. This one as many since the events of 9/11, 2001, focused on children and grief…

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Children and Loss

Tammy Adams — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 19:44:20 +0000

As children, we learn how to navigate life by what we hear, observe, and experience. What is the cost of sharing misinformation with our children? Could there be a better way? Up to the age of nine we have little interest in cognitively understanding what we experience. Nor do we have the skills, or abilities, to process many of life’s significant events. Our well-meaning parents, grandparents…

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Kids and Loss: make sure you’re giving them the right information about loss

Tammy Adams — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 15:25:14 +0000

In this guest blog I am sharing the wisdom of Grief Recovery Specialist, Russell Friedman, from The Grief Recovery Institute. I hope you find this blog helpful. A sponge cannot differentiate between deadly poison and sweet nectar. It sops up whatever liquid it contacts. Children are like sponges. They cannot distinguish the value of the information they are immersed in, especially when they are…

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Do boys and girls grieve differently?

Tammy Adams — Sat, 15 May 2021 19:36:36 +0000

In this guest blog I am sharing the wisdom of Grief Recovery Specialist, Russell Friedman, from The Grief Recovery Institute. While this is an earlier article I believe the information remains relevant today. I hope you find this blog helpful. Just the other day, I gave radio interview number 1,485 on the topic of grief recovery or people’s reaction to loss and what to do about it.

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