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Summary: a perfect book for any adult helping children to cope
Review: As a child therapist I highly recommend this book to professionals and parents. It is a simple to read guide for any adult helping children cope with the death of a loved one. Due to the fact that the adults can also be dealing with the loss it helps to explain how children cope and ways to help them understand and deal with the loss. Children, unlike adults deal with things differently and parents often make huge mistakes in their attempts at protecting them. This book is clear in the ways that are helpful for children. I have used this book in my own practice to help the young patients and their parents.
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Summary: a perfect book for any adult helping children to cope
Review: As a child therapist I highly recommend this book to professionals and parents. It is a simple to read guide for any adult helping children cope with the death of a loved one. Due to the fact that the adults can also be dealing with the loss it helps to explain how children cope and ways to help them understand and deal with the loss. Children, unlike adults deal with things differently and parents often make huge mistakes in their attempts at protecting them. This book is clear in the ways that are helpful for children. I have used this book in my own practice to help the young patients and their parents.
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Summary: Saving Parents' Sanity
Review: As a counselor and professional speaker, one of the most frequent concerns I hear from parents with bereaved children is, "How do I keep sane and deal with my own stuff when I'm trying to help my kids?" In easy-to-read format, Helen Fitzgerald has provided a real gift.The book is arranged in short "snippets" of information according to topics. The eight-page table of contents will help the reader find what he/she is looking for fast. This format makes the book highly accessible for parents who are most often also engaged in their own grief, and may, therefore, lack concentration for laborious pursuits. Moreover, Helen Fitzgerald does not write as an academic researcher; she writes as one who has walked through the deep valley. Her husband died of cancer, leaving her with four children to rear--and to help through their own grief while overcome by her own. Parents will find encouragement here. Through these pages, parents will learn what vital roles they play in their child's grief process. Whether using correct language, appropriately explaining the cause of a difficult death, making decisions about the child's participation in the funeral, or a thousand other issues, parents (and counselors, too) will find a real friend here.
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Summary: Saving Parents' Sanity
Review: As a counselor and professional speaker, one of the most frequent concerns I hear from parents with bereaved children is, "How do I keep sane and deal with my own stuff when I'm trying to help my kids?" In easy-to-read format, Helen Fitzgerald has provided a real gift. The book is arranged in short "snippets" of information according to topics. The eight-page table of contents will help the reader find what he/she is looking for fast. This format makes the book highly accessible for parents who are most often also engaged in their own grief, and may, therefore, lack concentration for laborious pursuits. Moreover, Helen Fitzgerald does not write as an academic researcher; she writes as one who has walked through the deep valley. Her husband died of cancer, leaving her with four children to rear--and to help through their own grief while overcome by her own. Parents will find encouragement here. Through these pages, parents will learn what vital roles they play in their child's grief process. Whether using correct language, appropriately explaining the cause of a difficult death, making decisions about the child's participation in the funeral, or a thousand other issues, parents (and counselors, too) will find a real friend here.
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Summary: we need balance
Review: I read the book and the subject matter is very well defined. however I do think that we as adults, in our complex worlds tend to view things from the whole to the minute rather than vise-versa. parents are so out off touch with their own reality of loss of life and tend to exude their own feelings upon children. death changes at every level of ages and the older we get the more complicated we make it mentally,physically and spiritually.
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Summary: we need balance
Review: I read the book and the subject matter is very well defined. however I do think that we as adults, in our complex worlds tend to view things from the whole to the minute rather than vise-versa. parents are so out off touch with their own reality of loss of life and tend to exude their own feelings upon children. death changes at every level of ages and the older we get the more complicated we make it mentally,physically and spiritually.
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Summary: Wrong
Review: My Name is Megan. I only read the back of this book but it is not very accurate. It personnally seems to me that adults have a harder time with death then children do. The back of the book also stated: "Parents of preschool age to the teen years..." Oh my goodness! That is so wrong! I know no one will listen to me because no one ever does and that is why I hate being a teenager and I hated being a kid when I was one, but grown-ups think they know everything and they think they know how kids feel, but if you have to write a book like this then you obviously don't!
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