Mean­while, on Mon­day, Camille Taitt wept in­con­solably when she heard her son Re­nal­do Dixon, 14, of Bagna Trace, Chase Vil­lage, Ch­agua­nas, had been killed by a school­mate.Dixon was a Form Three stu­dent of the Wa­ter­loo Sec­ondary School. He was stabbed sev­er­al times and his wrist slit by a 16-year-old Form Five stu­dent. He died dur­ing emer­gency treat­ment at the Freeport Health Cen­tre.

The trag­ic in­ci­dent oc­curred over a girl at the school.As the heart-wrench­ing news hit home, Taitt said: "I sent my child to school this morn­ing think­ing he was go­ing to come back home but he didn't come back home."Re­count­ing his last words, a sor­row­ful Taitt said: "He said mom­my, can I get pie to car­ry to school. I took it out and gave it to him." He said: "Well, mom­my, lat­er," and that was it.

Tips for cop­ing with the loss of a child

�2 Al­low your­self time to grieve; don't lim­it your­self

�2 Sched­ule time for griev­ing (it will come in waves and you might want to be alone to deal with it)

�2 Don't make any changes to the child's room or clos­et or per­son­al be­long­ings be­fore you are ready

�2 Don't make ma­jor life de­ci­sions for the fam­i­ly or your­self

�2 Re­ceive sup­port from loved ones; but at the same time set bound­aries

�2 Pray to the Almighty; draw up­on your faith

�2 Be open to re­ceiv­ing pro­fes­sion­al help

(Source: Psy­chol­o­gist Di­ane Dou­glas)