Kelsey Cecil 10/19/26 Kelsey Cecil 10/19/26

Losing a Parent Too Soon: When Your Mom or Dad Dies While You're Still Young

Name: Grieving My Parents by Finishing My Mom's Children's Book
Uploaded: 2026-10-11T15:48:12+00:00
Description: Kelsey Lizee Cecil on losing both parents and publishing Rally Takes the Train, the children's book her mom always wanted to write.

Losing a parent young, in your teens, 20s or 30s, is its own kind of grief: you lose your mom or dad while most people your age still have theirs, so the loss can feel invisible as well as unfair. It's normal to grieve the future you expected along with the person, and it helps to find at least a few people who get it.