340. How to Talk to Your Children About Death
The Widowed Mom Podcast
Krista St-Germain
4.9 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
When it comes to talking to children about death, most of us freeze. We worry we'll say the wrong thing. We want to protect them from pain. We fear making it worse.
The truth is, talking to children about death doesn't have to feel overwhelming. In this episode, I'm sharing a simple framework that you can return to again and again. Whether you're a new widow navigating this territory or someone supporting a friend who needs guidance, this episode offers practical tools for having these difficult but necessary conversations.
Tune in this week to discover a three-part approach that takes the mystery out of these conversations. I walk you through exactly what to say, what to avoid, and how to support children of any age as they navigate their grief.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, Episode 340, How to Talk to Your Children About Death. |
| 0:10.3 | Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, the only podcast that offers a proven process to help you work through your grief to grow, evolve, and create a future you can truly look forward to. |
| 0:24.2 | Here's your host, Master Certified Life Coach, Grief Expert, Widow, and Mom, Krista St. Germain. |
| 0:33.0 | Hey there, welcome to another episode of the podcast. |
| 0:36.2 | Today we're going to talk about something that I get asked about because it's uncomfortable and challenging, which is how to talk to children about death. And my hope is that some widows, perhaps new widows, are just going to stumble onto this podcast episode and it's going to help them, or maybe it's going to show up in a Google search. |
| 0:59.5 | And then there will be others who you know and because you have heard this episode, |
| 1:05.0 | you will forward it to them. If the time comes for your friends, which it does, right? |
| 1:09.5 | This is how it happens. You will know this episode exists and you can give it to them in a time where it really might help them. |
| 1:14.8 | So that's why I really want to do this episode. Before we get into that, I want to tell you a couple of things. One is we are doing something we've never done before. If you listen to this |
| 1:19.7 | episode before December 3rd, 2025, you have an opportunity to check out Mom Goes On via what we |
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| 1:42.5 | see what the community is like and see |
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| 1:50.1 | hard time, right? It can be a time where we don't need extra work, but we would like some extra |
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| 2:03.1 | forward slash holiday pass and we get started on December 3rd. Also, life update because I haven't |
| 2:09.4 | really told you anything lately. So this week, my daughter is coming home. Very excited about that. |
| 2:15.1 | She was in Prague. She went to Prague in July, and then she had some visa |
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