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When plant death becomes a child's first encounter with mortality

My kid's school plant project died over winter break and she is inconsolable and I do not know how to explain death to a seven-year-old.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Small deaths prepare us for larger griefs, but the timing of these lessons is never convenient.

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“Where Are You with The examined relationship with plants?”

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