How Do You Talk About Death With Your Child?

When my daughter was one, we visited the resting place in Canada of her grandmother – my mother Janni Moss. She was too young to remember it or to fully understand what was happening, but it was an important day for me. My mother’s passing was the most significant turning point in my life. I was fifteen when she was sick, and sixteen when she passed away from complications from a bone marrow transplant to treat her cancer. The experience of that loss, and being witness to her fight for life w...