# Home Life
# Death and Grief
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How to handle grief with a child
**CLASSIFICATION**
**R**
**G**
**M**
**1**
**JURISDICTION**
- [x] **soil**
- [x] **Land**
- [ ] **Sea**
- [ ] **AIR**
**SOURCE:**
Rayson & Friends
Question: We have a ten-year-old daughter. We need some guidance as to how to handle discussing what's going on concerning the death of a loved one.
Answer: Good question, showing a parent's wisdom and concern. I would not tell her too much unless she asks. Children have a natural and protective quality that allows them to take in only as much as they can make sense of. If she asks, direct your conversation to the spiritual. She has a Thought Adjuster and Spirit of Truth and angels to aid her in recognizing truths. Keep your answers simple. Do not show too much of your devastation in front of the child as this will confuse her, because you might say the deceased is in a better place in words to her and yet she will observe your deeds as construing the opposite emotion. Cry behind closed doors. She
will get through this, and this is an opportunity for her to learn more about the Eternal Spirit of the ascendent
children of time.
# Responsibilities
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A family member should attend to the rest of their family in five ways
**CLASSIFICATION**
**E**
**G**
**O**
**X**
**JURISDICTION**
- [x] **soil**
- [x] **Land**
- [ ] **Sea**
- [ ] **AIR**
**SOURCE:** [https://wisdomi.org/download-truth-vol-2/](https://wisdomi.org/download-truth-vol-2/)Attributed to the Buddha, but impossible to confirm.
A family member should attend to the rest of their family in five ways:
1. by treating all other members as equals,
2. by being courteous,
3. by being generous,
4. by honoring other members’ authority within the family,
5. and above all, by being true to their word.
Families who are loved like this, return their love in five ways:
1. by guarding other family members’ properties,
2. by protecting one another,
3. by helping in times of trouble,
4. by eliminating dangers which others do not see,
5. and by helping even the extended members of one’s own family.
# Traditions
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