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When children report contact with deceased siblings

My five-year-old son says his baby sister who died visits him at night to play and I do not know if this is healthy imagination or trauma.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Young minds process death through frameworks adults have abandoned, creating encounters we struggle to interpret.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Continuing bonds — ongoing relationship with the deceased?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.