12 Tips - Tip 8
Tip 8: Make a reminder box or a reminder book with the child
Job is 4 years old when his mother is diagnosed with cancer. The prospects that the cancer entail are anything but favorable. Mother and father try to do everything for Job to make the goodbye as bearable as possible for him soon when it comes to this point.
Job is involved in wherever you can. Mother and father read books together with Job about being sick and also about what happens when you stop getting better, books about dying. Job even gets involved in some hospital appointments. Mom and dad like this for Job.
What they only find difficult is how to give Job something about his mother when she is gone later. Mother fears Job will soon remember nothing about what his mother was like because he is only so young now. That is why it is decided to make a reminder box together with Job. That might be a good thing, because when Job almost 6 years old, his mother dies.
The question is, what do you do in a reminder box and when do you start with that?
The moment you know as a parent that you are so sick that you don't have long to live, you can start making a reminder box together with your child. Despite the fact that Job is only 4 years old, he does have the age that he can go and find out a box together with mother what he would like as a reminder box. Just doing that together creates a connection and creates an extra reminder. Despite the age of Job, you can already watch together and talk about some outings or other things that have been done that count as nice memories that could be in the memory box.
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