When my 14 year old son died, many people wanted to be helpful and supportive to me, but didn’t know what to do or say. Many asked me, ‘What can I say?’ I have written a book full of ideas on what helped me (and what didn’t help!) during my heaviest time of grief. I’ve called the book ‘But what can I say? Ways to help bereaved parents’.
I asked dozens of other bereaved parents for their input and included it in the book.
There’s no ‘recipe’ for how to support bereaved parents, but this book gives some helpful insights. I’d be interested in experiences from other bereaved parents on how people tried to help you (positive or negative).
