This is horrible. A close friend has killed herself leaving a 6yo behind. I want to be able to supportive but don't know the child at all as they live hundreds of miles away. What is the right way to speak to her at the funeral?
Also I have just discovered that I can't get anyone to look after my 3yo when I travel to the funeral. So dh and I will have to bring her with us I suppose. But I really feel it's inappropriate to bring her along to a funeral especially when she's at an age where she's wondering about death and big worries of that sort. Do you think the best thing would be for dh and I to take it in shifts to entertain her somewhere else and maybe one of us go to the actual funeral and one to the tea afterwards? I don't know what to do at all.
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friend just died.... can't get childcare for funeral and what can I say to her 6yo?
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Maenad · 15/03/2008 11:03
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