Features a helpful reading guide from Child Bereavement UK that provides tips for reading Badger's Parting Gifts with children and helping them better understand grief. When a baby lives only a short time or dies before birth due to miscarriage, stillbirth or a painful decision to end the pregnancy, people may assume that the loss is not important. There is the grief associated with their own loss, but also the reactions and responses of their children to the death of a grandparent.

Our online information sheet Talking With and Supporting Bereaved Children with further notes and guidance, using examples and illustrations from the book, can be downloaded HERE. Gradually they come to terms with their grief by remembering all the practical things Badger taught them, and so Badger lives on in his friends’ memories of him. He tries to prepare his friends for this event, but when he does die, they are still grief-stricken. Babies and young children have no understanding of the concept of death yet, long before they are able to talk, babies are likely to react to upset and changes in their environment brought about by the absence of a significant person. Claire was supported by Child Bereavement UK in Edinburgh after her son Jamie died aged 10 from Covid-19.

It is important to tell a child of any age when someone important in their lives has died, and ideally this is done by someone who is closest to them. The new, 35 th anniversary edition of the book features a reading guide from Child Bereavement UK that provides tips for reading Badger’s Parting Gifts with children and helping them better understand grief. Celebrating the 35th anniversary of this quintessential and multi-award-winning picture book about losing a loved one. The death of a grandparent is often a child or young person’s first encounter with the death of someone important.

by John Burningham, Rabbityness by Jo Empson and If All the World Were by Joseph Coelho and Allison Colpoys. When he finally passes away, they are grief-stricken, but one by one they remember the special things he taught them during his life. Since then, the beautifully illustrated, sensitive and accessible story, gently exploring grief and loss, has aided parents, teachers and grandparents alike in starting conversations with young children about death of any kind. Short films delivered by our support practitioners giving guidance on a range of bereavement topics.No parent expects to face the death of their child and no grandparent expects to lose their grandchild. Badger's Parting Gifts' by Susan Varley is a classic, touching and moving tale of loss and friendship, Badger’s Parting Gifts provides comfort to children who may have lost a loved one and explains that grief can eventually give way to happy memories. This Trustees' Week, we ask Lorna Ireland of our Board of Trustees why she became involved in supporting our work and what she's gained. Sign up to our newsletter and connect with us on social media to keep up to date with our latest news, activities and services. Child Bereavement UK designs and delivers training for professionals in health and social care, education, the emergency services and the voluntary and corporate sectors, equipping them to provide the best possible care to bereaved families.

Child Bereavement UK have partnered with publisher Andersen Press to provide information and guidance for adults using Susan Varley’s much-loved picture book Badger’s Parting Gifts to help children understand and talk about death. The forest animals grieve for him all winter then in the spring talk about the good memories they had of Badger. The idea for the story came from one of Susan Varley’s final year projects at Manchester Polytechnic.