Children and Grief: Helping Your Child Understand Death

Children and Grief: Helping Your Child Understand Death

by Joey O'Connor
Children and Grief: Helping Your Child Understand Death

Children and Grief: Helping Your Child Understand Death

by Joey O'Connor

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Overview

Talking to your child about death, dying, and eternal life can be one of the most difficult things you'll ever do-if you're unprepared. How can you prepare yourself and your children for what should be not a onetime discussion but the beginning of a lifelong conversation?

Children and Grief is a compassionate, understanding resource full of ideas to help you support your child through the questions, emotions, and struggles that death and loss inevitably bring. Author and grief recovery specialist Joey O'Connor teaches you how to

- explain the physical reality of death and terminal illness
- answer questions in specific, age-appropriate ways
- help your child grieve by supporting his or her unique emotions
- provide a sense of security amid disorienting events such as funerals

In the midst of pain and grief, death can be an opportunity to share much about life, eternity, and God's love. Children and Grief will help you grab hold of the experience-tough as it is-with insight that will give you both confidence and peace of mind.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781441231765
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/01/2004
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 254
File size: 453 KB

About the Author

Joey O'Connor is the author of several books for couples, parents, and young adults. He has appeared on several television programs to educate parents about how to discuss life and death issues with their children, as well as dozens of national radio programs to help couples learn how to improve their relationships. Joey serves Coast Hills Community Church in the spiritual formation department and lives in San Clemente, California.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments9
Introduction11
1Can You Help Me Help My Son? Looking at Grief and Loss from a New Perspective19
2The Beginning of a Lifelong Conversation: Communicating Facts, Feelings, and Faith35
3What Can I Do? Helping Children, Loved Ones, and Yourself in the Grieving Process51
4The Facts about Death: The D-Word and What You Can Do about It69
5Grandpa Did Not Go Away on a Long Trip: Telling Your Child the Truth and Avoiding Religious Euphemisms83
6If You Weren't Grieving, Something Would Really Be Wrong: Good Grief for Children105
7A Bridge of Hope: Building Heaven in Your Child's Heart123
8Homeland Security: Dealing with Fears of Death, Terrorism, and War143
9Will There Be Different Colors in Heaven? Honest Questions from Inquisitive Kids159
10Mommy's Very Sick: Living and Dying with a Terminal Illness177
11Nobody Gets Outta Here Alive: Talking with Your Teenager193
12Making Meaning, Making Memories: Celebrating Life with Children209
Epilogue225
Appendix AQuestions and Answers about the Funeral Process227
Appendix BGrief Resources241
Notes251
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