The Best Way to Break Awful News to a Kid, According to Reddit
by Meghan Moravcik Walbert on Offspring, shared by Me from Lifehacker on (#4VFYM)

Breaking bad news to our kids is awful. A divorce, a serious illness, the death of a pet, the death of a family member ... there are all kinds of difficult things they will experience in their lives that we can't fully shield them from. We have to tell them because if we don't, someone else will; and it's always"