36: Helping Kids Manage Grief and Loss

Ask Lisa: The Psychology of Raising Tweens & Teens

Dr. Lisa Damour/Reena Ninan

Mental Health, Kids & Family, Health & Fitness, Parenting

4.7 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

"If the pandemic is about anything, it's about loss,” says Dr. Lisa Damour. Grief can come in different forms - from losing a loved one, to mourning the loss of senior year in high school, to not getting into your favorite college. How can you tell if your child is grieving and what can you do to help? Lisa and Reena examine how to support our kids as they cope with loss. Reena shares how a bouncy castle rented on the morning of her grandfather’s funeral helped her family deal with loss. Lisa discusses insights from Sigmund Freud - written over one hundred years ago - that can be helpful as we find our way through the pandemic. Enter to win one of two copies of "Fall of Freddie the Leaf" being given away by the @asklisapodcast. The book has helped children and adults deal with the mourning process. 1. Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and/or LinkedIn @asklisapodcast ⁠ 2. Tag a friend and leave a comment (on Instagram/Facebook/LinkedIn)⁠ 3. Enter as many times as you'd like⁠ 4. For U.S. residents only⁠ ⁠(Give-away is not sponsored or endorsed by Instagram/Facebook/LinkedIn. It will close at 11:59 p.m. EST on 4/26/21. Winners will be chosen at random and will be notified within 24 hours of the end of the give-away. Books will be mailed to the winners.) Additional resources: https://www.drlisadamour.com/ Ask Lisa is produced by Www.GoodTroubleProductions.com Be sure to follow us on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter @AskLisaPodcast, @LDamour, @ReenaNinan See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	This is Ask Lisa, a podcast to help people understand the psychology of parenting, now in the midst of a pandemic.
0:12.2	Psychologist Dr. Lisa DeMore, author of two New York Times best-selling parenting books, takes your questions.
0:19.7	And I'm co-host, Rina Ninan, a journalist and mom of two.
0:23.7	Some of what we talk about comes from raising children ourselves. Most of the time, I'll be getting
0:28.5	answers to your parenting questions. So send your questions to Ask Lisa at Dr.Lisademore.com.
0:36.3	Episode 36, helping kids manage grief and loss.
0:44.9	It was an incredible reunion.
0:46.9	My kids got to see one set of grandparents
0:49.4	for the first time in 16 months.
0:52.3	Whoa.
0:53.0	Huge.
0:53.2	How'd you guys make it happen?
0:54.5	What did you do?
0:55.7	Everyone's vaccinated, so it made a difference, and we stayed with them at their place.
1:00.4	And you know what made me realize my daughter, who doesn't show a lot of emotion and so
1:05.5	even keeled, the joy in her eyes, I cannot explain to you. I have not, she's been happy this whole pandemic
1:13.6	and thriving, to be honest. Yeah. But it made me realize how much she missed them. And in that
1:20.0	moment, she, you could just see the joy of being back. She did not want to leave. Oh, just that
1:26.6	sense of suddenly realizing how much she had been missing out on.
1:30.4	Yeah, and she kept asking me all night.
1:32.3	You know, it was a quick short visit.
1:34.1	Mom, can we stay for like the week?
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