Grief rarely travels alone. It usually brings company — anger that flares up out of nowhere, a mind that keeps bargaining for a different outcome, a "not yet" that won't budge, a sadness that seems to arrive in waves. None of these feelings are wrong, and none of them mean a child is grieving badly. They're simply what grief tends to bring with it.

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Naming them helps. A child who can say "I feel Anger today" has a little more room to feel it than a child who only knows something is wrong. Below are eight feelings that often show up alongside grief — what each one is, where a child might feel it in their body, what tends to help, and one thing that's kind not to say.