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Child's Perspective on Parent's Feelings about Loss
Children can sense when their parent is holding back emotions and it can make them uncomfortable/nChildren reflect their parent's emotions and feelings back to them/nIt is important for the parent to stand by the child and acknowledge their feelings even when they push them away/nParents should model nonchalant or unthreatened behavior when their child expresses rejection/nContinually accommodating the child's preference for the other parent can perpetuate the rejection/nThe child may express these feelings of rejection in a rejecting way until they process them