What’s the best thing to do when your child’s pet dies and your child is inconsolable? What do you say to your child? How do you help your child to cope with the grief of losing their little friend? Losing a pet is never easy. And the average lifespan of a pet makes it an inescapable fact that your child will experience the loss of that pet either in late childhood or during the teenage years. Often the death of a beloved pet is the first real brush with death in the life of a child, unless a close family … Continue reading →