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For the school aged child, like the younger child, grief crisis may interrupt age appropriate activities and force a child to address issues for which the child is not developmentally prepared. Children this age might believe that certain behavior will bring their loved ones back.
1 Mourning is a process that continues over years in children. 2  Feelings of loss may occur again and again as the child gets older. 3  This is common at important times, such as going to camp, graduating from school, getting married, or having children.hildren do not react to loss in the same ways as adults. These are some of the ways children's grief is different: 1  Children may seem to show grief only once in a while and for short times. 2  This may be because a child is not able to feel strong emotions for long periods of time.