Claire Crowe

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The Claire Byrne Show · How to deal with grief as a parent · 5 May 2026 podcast

Because they learn funeral etiquette and the world of an open casket in a kind of like safer way.

I had a seven-year-old who, again, didn't want to go to his grandmother's funeral.

And the mom kind of raised it with me.

And actually for that seven-year-old, it wasn't that he didn't want to go.

It's that he didn't want his granny to be dead.

So his thought process was, if I don't go, it's not happening.

Because, of course, at that age, seeing is believing.

I know.

And that's exactly what these parents wanted.

And, of course, in some circumstances, we have to bring the child to the funeral because it's someone in the immediate family.

There's no one else, you know, to mind our child.

For practical reasons.

Yeah.

So there's...

In those situations, what we did with this seven-year-old is we gave him a purpose.

We gave him an important job to do at the funeral.

So his grandmother always had like a packet of sweets in her pocket.

So his job at the funeral was to go in, he bought the sweets and put them in her pocket so that she looked like herself.

in the coffin and that was such an important job and that kind of really helped him to feel like actually I'm doing something and now granny is granny and she has those going with her so it can be a little bit about bringing ritual into it for a child you know like I would say you know maybe a painting putting in like a drawing into the casket with the

with a person who's died that goes with them.

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