My eldest DD had a best friend who tragically died 6 months ago. They were literally joined at the hip, met t nursery and started school,gymnastics and rainbows together. Since friends passing DD reluctant to join in conversations, goes to bed early and is generally very quiet, a far cry from her usual bubbly self.
I knew this loss of her friend would be hard but I thought she would have shown some interest in life by now.
I just don't know what to do anymore, about a month after the funeral I took her away to Spain so we could have girl bonding time, I'm always suggesting we stay up and watch princess films, paint our nails, bake etc but she's just not interested. She doesn't want to visit the grave with flowers either which I thought might help. When I collected her from her rainbows last night and the leader informed me she asked to sit out during the games and just watched by herself.
I've been to my gp for advice who says she's just mourning and will be fine but it seems deeper than that to me.
Any advice from anyone would be great, don't know if I'm doing right by her anymore.
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Heartbroken 6 year old
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Ilovecheeseandlovinglife · 16/01/2013 17:59
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