6th-Grader Suicide -right way to deal with classmates?

[Aliantha]

I can't imagine the horror these parents are going through, and I can understand their need for privacy.

I don't think they'll be able to quiet the kids down other than to simply close down his FB page which would probably be the ideal way to go with a child that age.

As far as how the other kids are dealing with it, I think this is a time when their own parents have to step up. It's not up to the dead child's parents to care for them now. Surely they're flat out caring for themselves right now.

Children at that age are so susceptible to peer pressure. They're just entering the age where being part of the group is very important. It's also a time when kids like to copy cat a lot, which I assume is why the school is trying to hush up the whole suicide aspect of it. I don't know if this is right or wrong, but again, the individual parents should take their kids to a private counsellor if they aren't happy with the conselling provided by the school.

Really, I think it's an opportunity for parents to get in touch with their own kids and deal with it within the family. Whatever anyone else does will not have anywhere near the same impact as the concern and understanding of the parents.