Do Children Understand Death?.

Children most often do not understand death when compared with adults. For children to understand death, terminally ill children and their siblings will discuss and talk about death among themselves and ask questions.

Terminally ill Children of all ages need parent’s love and support in a difficult time like the loss of a family member. And also the social interaction with other children to alleviate the emotional trauma is critical.

The death of a significant person in the family for example the death of a parent can lead to the retardation of a child or regression of a child developmentally .It is important that children are allowed to go through grief reaction like an adult.This will allow a child to accept the loss and develop into a normal well-being and emotionally balanced. Be there and be supportive.

From my experience very little children under one years to three years old do not understand physical death except that they are missing the person. They will look around for the deceased, point at the pictures of the deceased but might not understand the physical death.

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It is important to allow children to grief and recover from their loss emotionally for a normal well-being.