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Sep 6, 2010
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Children & Grief
- Children can learn now -- Coping skills for a lifetime
By Sherry L. Williams
I’ve been working with the New York Fire Department, a fireman, widows of firemen, and their children. One of the most rewarding experiences of my entire career in grief work, talking with and helping these people has been both exhausting and exhilarating. One issue pressing the hearts of...
- Kids today: What they want to know about death
By Rabbi Earl A. Grollman
What if?
What if God never took my father? Would he have taken me instead? What if I never get through this? Will people still look at me the way they did before? Or will I be looked up as a girl with no father? Will...
- Bella
By Patricia Ann Britt
Bella came to visit while her grandpa went to the garage where the men were gathered. She stood before me after knocking on the door.
“I will wait this out,” I thought. In a house which was no longer child-proofed, she wanted to talk to me. I was the chosen...
- How to help children cope with death
By Sherry L. Williams
Talking to children about death is a challenge. No one knows what to say and everyone wants to make the hurt go away. Most people like to think that children do not understand death, grief or loss. Because of that, people often rely on vague phrases such as “grandma passed...
- When a child’s heart is turned upside down
By Susan Smith
Eileen Douglas says that she woke up one morning a happily married woman and went to bed that night a widow. The sudden death of her husband, Jeff, in 1975 left her shattered, brokenhearted and lost.
“I felt like I’d fallen into a black hole,” she says. “Nothing mattered like...
- Role model: How one woman lives out the role she was cast in
By Rachel Zients
I grew up thinking everybody had a book written about them. “What’s your book about?” I’d be asked at various show and tells. My fellow fourth-graders would just look back at me curiously. My mother wrote a children’s book about me, Rachel and the Upside Down Heart, that has been...
- Helping Children Understand Death
By Suzanne Howell
Children are handicapped when it comes to understanding death. They just have not learned enough to understand all that is happening, their language skills may not allow them to express their worries or their feelings, and with their short attention span they may think about the dying or dead for a few minutes and then be playing
- Life Development and Bereavement
By Sandra L. Graves (Alcorn)
Throughout life, from infancy to our older rears, we realize changes in almost everything. There are changes in the way we do things. There are changes in the way we feel. It is important for us to remember that we are not the same at 20 as we were at...
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