Grief
Grief can be difficult for anyone but especially for children who do not necessarily know how to explain how they are feeling. Everyone processes grief differently and there is no time limit on it. Here are some resources that can help you through your loss. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help!
- How Children Understand Death: https://www.scholastic.com/snp/childrenandgrief.htm
- Death and Loss- Helping Children Manage their Grief: https://www.scholastic.com/snp/childrenandgrief-4.htm
Books to Support Students and Parents
- The Brightest Star! by Kathleen Maresh Hemery
- Sunflowers & Rainbows for Tia by Alesia Alexander-Greene
- Gentle Willow: A Story for Children About Dying by Joyce C. Mills, Ph.D.
- Where Are You? A Child's Book About Loss by Laura Olivieri
- I Miss You: A First Look at Death by Pat Thomas
- After a Loved One Dies—How Children Grieve: And How Parents and Other Adults Can Support Them by David Schonfeld, MD, and Marcia Quackenbush, MS, MFT, CHES
- A Parent's Guide to Raising Grieving Children by Phyllis R. Silverman and Madelyn Kelly
- Grief in Children: A Handbook for Adults by Atle Dyregrov