Handling The Behaviors of Grief in Your Children

Are you seeing behaviors in your children that you haven't before?  Oftentimes these can be the result of grief.  Yes, even years after being home children can experience grief from their earliest of loss (of their birthmother).  You can help your child by being there with them to listen & support.  Don't say that you know how they feel ... you don't.  Don't say that you're there to help fix their feelings ... this implies that they have a problem.  As children grow, their thoughts of their early beginnings change ... they need to know that they're ok.  Their wonderment, anger, thoughts, & feelings are ok & a normal part of the grief process.  Be there ...