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How to honor young people's grief for celebrities without minimizing it

My teenage daughter is devastated about the pop star's death and I want to dismiss it but I remember how real that pain felt at her age

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Dismissing adolescent grief over public figures risks teaching them that their emotional responses to loss are inherently invalid.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Collective grief — mourning public figures and tragedies?”

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