Children have Feelings too.

    Children need to grieve too. I think adults many times forget their children have feelings too. Maybe not so much today, as it was when I was a child, still many adults undermine their little one’s feelings. Just because they are children don’t mean that they don’t hurt. We know that they hurt physically, get their feelings hurt etc, but we can forget that they grieve too.

   Adults have a hard time with grief also.

 Sometimes we try to work it away, drink it away, and even eat it away but it doesn’t work. I wrote “Saying Goodbye to Grandma” because of this very thing. As a child, I didn’t have anyone to help me process my feelings about my grandmother’s illness and eventual death.
  This is my grandma Ada Hess who I loved like a mother. She is holding my little sister Blanca in this photo. 

This is an illustration from my book, "Saying Goodbye to Grandma." Emily is angry at her grandma because she sleeps all the time and doesn't play with her like she used to. She doesn't understand that Grandma is dying.