When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.
In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief, and they really need to be treated for depression.
Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.
I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.
Wayward, disobedient children cause their parents grief and anxiety.
Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that must be felt when you lose a child.
It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.
Such is the life of a man. Moments of joy, obliterated by unforgettable sadness. There's no need to tell the children that.
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.