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For the school aged child, like the younger child, grief crisis may interrupt age appropriate activities and force a child to address issues for which the child is not developmentally prepared. Children this age might believe that certain behavior will bring their loved ones back.
Grief reactions following the death of a child are similar to those after other losses, but are often more intense and last longer. You may experience the following grief reactions: 1  Intense shock, confusion, disbelief, and denial, even if your child's death was expected. Questioning or loss of faith or spiritual beliefs â assumptions about the world and how things should be do not fit with the reality of your child's death. 2  Dreaming about your child or feeling your child's presence nearby. 3  Feeling intense loneliness and isolation, even when with other people.