Guiding children to know that death is a natural life phenomenon can start with sharing family stories together.

It is suggested that when family members get together to chat, they can find out the yellowed photos and talk to their children about their parents' biological parents or grandparents who have passed away. Where did they come from? Do what? How many children do you have? What did they like to play at that time? What to eat? What is the happiest or saddest thing? You can also draw these stories with your children, and gradually understand life and death in drawing and telling stories.

2. Using pets as a medium

Many babies like keeping pets. Pets have a short life span and can easily become children's first experience of contact with death. Parents may wish to make good use of the opportunity of life education.

The death of pets often arouses children's doubts about death. Where did the dog go? What is heaven? Can I go with you? More and more research points out that if children are encouraged to ask questions related to death, allowed to express their emotions, and often cared for, then they can face the death of their loved ones more calmly.

Let the children watch The Lion King. When Simba the lion's father dies, the children in front of the TV will cry with him. In fact, they are "practicing" their sadness and learning to let their emotions have an outlet.

3. Know life and death from nature

Let children experience the changes of seasons, such as watching the process of leaves from newborn to withered. A clinical counselor chose to let his children plant trees, knowing that "flowers bloom and fall, flowers die, but another flower is born".

4. Read death gently with your children.

Opening a picture book and reading a story about death is actually one of the most natural ways to talk about death with children. When the child has to face the departure of relatives and pets, when the child has to face the cruel reality that he is terminally ill and about to die, give him a picture book and read it with him gently.