Children and Grief

Helping Your Child Understand Death

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• Publisher: Revell
• Year: 2004
• eBook ISBN:
  9781441231765
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Theology & Religion

This is a book written for you and your children, " explains Joey O''Connor. "It initiates a conversation on a difficult subject most people prefer to avoid. It is about people like you and me struggling to figure out what they really believe when the unbelievable has happened. And then wondering, ''What in the world am I going to say to my kids? How am I going to explain what just happened in our family and what I believe about the God who saw this whole thing happen?"Children and Grief offers parents a way to approach these tough questions with honesty, tenderness, and hope. O''Connor shows how to teach children to trust God, celebrate life, and have hope in the face of death.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Can You Help Me Help My Son? Looking at Grief and Loss from a New Perspective
• 2. The Beginning of a Lifelong Conversation: Communicating Facts, Feelings, and Faith
• 3. What Can I Do? Helping Children, Loved Ones, and Yourself in the Grieving Process
• 4. The Facts about Death: The D-Word and What You Can Do about It
• 5. Grandpa Did Not Go Away on a Long Trip: Telling Your Child the Truth and Avoiding Religious Euphemisms
• 6. If You Weren’t Grieving, Something Would Really Be Wrong: Good Grief for Children
• 7. A Bridge of Hope: Building Heaven in Your Child’s Heart
• 8. Homeland Security: Dealing with Fears of Death, Terrorism, and War
• 9. Will There Be Different Colors in Heaven? Honest Questions from Inquisitive Kids
• 10. Mommy’s Very Sick: Living and Dying with a Terminal Illness
• 11. Nobody Gets Outta Here Alive: Talking with Your Teenager
• 12. Making Meaning, Making Memories: Celebrating Life with Children
• Epilogue
• Appendixes
• Notes
• About the Author