11/20/2025
Today is Children's Grief Awareness Day.
This day is designed to help us all become more aware of the needs of grieving children — and of the benefits they obtain through the support of others.
Children's Grief Awareness Day is an opportunity to make sure that grieving children receive the support they need.
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Why is this day important and why do we raise awareness for grieving kids and teens?
Many people don’t realize that it takes most children much longer to deal with their grief than we expect and that the amount of inner turmoil, invisible to most, is much more intense than we have any idea of. We raise awareness so that people will realize that even if there is no outward sign of inner turmoil, those storms can still be raging inside a grieving child’s heart.
We raise awareness so that people will understand that a grieving child can't just "get over it"—not in any set time period, not by any act of their own will—and that there's no reason that they should just "get over it."
We raise awareness in order to help people learn ways they might help a grieving child they happen to know, now or in the future.
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