Goodbye grandpa, a pandemic story

by Fernanda Carranza Leïn

Overview

Meet Ivan and Olivia, two children who, like you, learned a lot during the pandemic. Find out how their family coped with confinement and what they lost and kept. At the end of the story, you will find a family activity for you to do. You just need colors!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798889296607
Publisher:	BARKER & JULES, LLC
Publication date:	08/04/2023
Pages:	110
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.31(d)
Age Range:	6 - 8 Years

About the Author

am Fer Carranza, I was born on December 23, 1986, in Mexico City, and I grew up with my mother, my younger sister, my maternal grandparents, and my great-grandmother. I studied International Business at Panamerican University and worked for 5 and a half years in Human Resources at a transnational company. When I realized that the corporate world was not my thing, I studied preschool education and childcare; I was certified by Cambridge and began my career as a Kindergarten teacher. Nothing could prepare me for the shock of moving from corporate life to the school routine. Being the daughter of a working mother and having worked in a corporation where most of the mothers left their children at school or daycare in the morning and picked them up after work, the impact of experiencing the childhood of these children, from my adulthood, changed my life profoundly.

In the following 9 years, I went through pre-k all the way to elementary school. I was that teacher that children choose as a confidant and who is more interested in their happiness than their grades. Realizing the profound disconnection between children's needs and the attention paid by adults led me to look for tools and strategies to teach them self-knowledge, self-acceptance, and mental and emotional self-management. Realizing that many of my first and second-grade students showed behaviors derived from stress and growing anxiety made me turn to the field of psychology, and I studied a master's degree in Psychopedagogy at the International University of La Rioja and got a specialization as a behavioral, cognitive therapist by the Mexican Institute of Mental Health.

After 9 years as a teacher, I decided to leave the classroom to develop a project that wants to provide strategies used in cognitive behavioral therapy through techniques that can be easily applied by adults and children in order to prevent and deal with stress, anxiety, and depression. This first therapeutic story is a tool that allows us to address the issue of death with our children, especially those who lost someone during this pandemic. Inside you will find information to understand why it is important to talk about death with children, how and when to notify them, and what to tell them and what not to tell them when having this conversation. If you want to explore more resources to promote the self-esteem and mental health of your children, visit www.luminis.mx