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What Do We Tell The Children?

Talking to Kids about Death and Dying

  • Paperback
  • 129 pages
  • Publisher: Abingdon
  • 14 x 21.4 x 1.3 cm

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For parents and caregivers of grieving children

Helps you navigate tough conversations about death

You will foster healing and understanding in kids

This book provides guidance on discussing death with children.

With practical tools, up-to-date research, humor, and reflection, facilitate healing and create a safe space for children's age-appropriate grieving. One out of seven children will lose a parent before they are 20. The statistics are sobering, but they also call for preparedness. However, professionals of all types are often at a loss when dealing with a grieving child. Talking to adults about death and grief is difficult; it's all the more challenging to talk to children and teens. The stakes are high: grieving children are high-risk for substance abuse, promiscuity, depression, isolation, and suicide. Yet, despite this, most of these kids grow up to be normal or exceptional adults. But their chance to become healthy adults increases with the support of a loving community. Supporting grieving children requires intentionality, open communication, and patience. Rather than avoid all conversations on death or pretend like it never happened, normalizing grief and offering support requires us to be in tune with kids through dialogue as they grapple with questions of "how" and "why." When listening to children in grief, we often have to embrace the mystery, offer love and compassion, and stick with the basics.

  • Title

    What Do We Tell The Children?

  • Author

    Joseph M. Primo

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Abingdon

  • Published

    September 2013

  • Weight

    227g

  • Page Count

    129

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.4 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9781426760495

  • ISBN-10

    1426760493

  • Eden Code

    4238221