A short YouTube Q&A clip (uploaded April 2, 2011) in which grief expert David Kessler answers whether children can feel grief. Kessler states that children who are old enough to love are old enough to grieve and advocates including children in family rituals like funerals so they learn about life and loss.
At what age is my child able to feel grief?
Sometimes people wonder, at what age do children begin to grieve? I believe that when children are old enough to love, they are old enough to grieve. So when it comes to things like children going to funerals, I believe we should be bringing our children to funerals. It's an important family event, and we're always teaching our children about life, and that includes loss. And their love and their grief should be included with ours.
