Can I share something I read in the paper?

Our paper had a story about a caseworker in Children's Hospital. She was helping a family that had had a fire. One young son had died, and another was in the hospital.

The caseworker said that she could do nothing to ease their grief over their sons. However, she could take the load of dealing with life's small issues off their shoulders. For example, the mother wanted to buy groceries, but couldn't because she didn't have her driver's license to present along with a check. So the caseworker dealt with the bureaucracy to solve that problem.

You can be the caseworker for your children. You can't ease the loss of their father. But you can help deal with other problems they face, problems they might normally handle on their own. I'm thinking of the (hypothetical) crabby teacher, the playground bully, the sport they're not good at, the lessons they don't really enjoy. Now is the time to get rid of these stresses. Also, TV, media and games which deal with violence and death. Death is no longer unreal for them.

I realize that as a Mudcatter, you control this stuff already. But you never know what might be on TV at a friend's house, etc.

Help them get enough sleep. Make sure their teachers are in the loop.

This is from my personal experience - beware of human vultures who descend at times like this, saying something like "Your father must have done something bad, because God is punishing him by giving him cancer." These will usually be kids they hardly know.

Well, if I were in your shoes, I think I would find the concept of mother-caseworker a comfort. What do you think?