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How to Address Your Child's Fear of Losing You

My six-year-old asks every night if I'll die before he grows up and no amount of reassurance seems to help him sleep peacefully.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A parent confronts their child's awareness of mortality and their own inability to offer the only guarantee their child desperately wants.

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