Other ways to remember

Children and their parents, often worry that they will forget things about loved ones who have died. But after a death there are many ways that children and families can remember loved ones.

Parents of Once Upon a Smile have come up with 10 ways to remember loved ones on special days:

• Visit the grave or the place where their ashes are buried or scattered
• Listen to their favourite music
• Make a memory box
• Have their favourite meal
• Write a special message on a helium balloon and let it go into the sky
• Write a letter or a poem
• Light a candle
• Share memories with family members
• Plant a tree or a flower in their memory
• Look over photos and remember the happy times shared