Do you have a grieving child in your life? Are you a caring adult wanting to help? Are you looking for healing activities and the language to use to explain them? Bundled together, KID TALK and OUR STORY give you over 100 creative activities and games, including the memory book, lesson plans, supplementary materials, and additional resources. Used in public schools and hospice settings over 20 years, the curriculum was recently expanded to be faith-based for use in a church setting with the goal of helping a child know God better and trust Him more. The format and content are proven successful. With KID TALK and OUR STORY, you can create interactive sessions with confidence that you are using time-tested exercises that work for the setting and profile of your child or children. Directions explain each activity with kid-friendly words. You will be able to help a child (or children) better understand and process his or her grief, diminish fear of grief itself, and normalize the grieving process. You will have multiple ways for the child to express his or her love for the decedent: memorialize. The pages in Our Story can inspire family conversations and doing griefwork together. The memory book can be a healing tool for the child to return to when his or her grief recycles in adolescence. Two books for the price of one. Purchase of the book entitles you to 25 exclusive downloadable PDFs at www.kidtalkgrief.com. These books are what you need to meet a grieving child's need for comfort, understanding and support.

Emily was oh so very happy! She loved school. She loved her pup. And she especially loved her family! But one day the very worst thing happened. Emily lost someone she loved. And after that nothing felt the same.From debut author Kathleen Fucci comes a story about adorable, vivacious Emily and a loss so big it threatens everything she knows. But one night when Emily cries out, "Where is God?!" she learns He is much closer, and loves her so much more, than she ever realized. Emily Lost Someone She Loved is a story written from personal experience. It communicates real emotions children feel when they lose a loved one. It's a book that can be read over and over again, restoring faith in God and hope for the future.

Do you want to help a grieving child? OUR STORY: A MEMORY BOOK for _____ is 38 pages of exercises designed to enable a child to navigate their grief, tell their story, and better understand and express their grief. It is an interactive tool you can use to help a child learn, heal, and grow. As you do griefwork together, you are building a healing relationship that moves the child through the grieving process. Each page can become a springboard for conversation, promoting griefwork as a family around topics like 'Favorite Things,' 'An Acrostic for ____,' 'Toilet Bowl Love,' and 'Treasured Memories.' Pages like 'My Silent Hurting Heart,' 'My Grief Bundle,' 'The Behaviors of Grief,' and 'How My Family Has Changed' increase understanding of the grief experience. Detailed instructions for each page of OUR STORY are found in Kid Talk A FAITH-BASED CURRICULUM FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN. For this reason, the two companion books are printed as one. Kid friendly language you can quote introduces over 60 more games and activities in the Kid Talk curriculum. They tip the balance of griefwork towards 'fun.' (Examples are popping corn without a lid when talking about anger, making 'pop-up puppets' who talk for you, the 'feelings vase magic,' blowing 'love bubbles,' and 'Kid Talk Jenga.' With a completed OUR STORY memory book, a child no longer needs to worry about forgetting the person who died. The memory book can also be an invaluable support when grief recycles in later years. And it will, especially in adolescence. It will enable the child to do griefwork in the future by reconnecting with once-fresh feelings, memories, and perspective of their loss. It will continue to inspire healing conversations with family that are mutually beneficial griefwork. Griefwork heals. For your convenience, the OUR STORY MEMORY BOOK can also be purchased separately if you are working with more than one child.

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The Grief Support Group Curriculum provides a basis for assisting children and teenagers as they learn about mourning through facing death of a close or special friend. The aim of this curriculum is to facilitate healthy variations of mourning and positive adaptations following the death of a friend or family member. The work illustrates mourning in four stages of development and is accordingly divided into four separate texts. The texts focus on preschool-aged children, children in kindergarten through grade two, children in grades three through six, and teenagers.

Based on Alan Wolfelt’s six needs of mourning and written to pair with Companioning the Grieving Child, this thorough guide provides hundreds of hands-on activities tailored for grieving children in three age groups: preschool, elementary, and teens. Through the use of readings, games, discussion questions, and arts and crafts, caregivers can help grieving young people acknowledge the reality of the death, embrace the pain of the loss, remember the person who died, develop a new self-identity, search for meaning, and accept support. Sample activities include grief sock puppets, expression bead bracelets, the nurturing game, and writing an autobiographical poem. Activities are presented in an easy-to-follow format, and each has a goal, an objective, a sequential description of the activity, and a list of needed materials.

"I will always remember you . . .Joanna Rowland's best-selling The Memory Box: A Book about Grief has helped thousands of children and families work through the complex emotions that arise after the loss of a loved one. Now, with The Memory Book, Rowland has created a beautiful grief journal to help readers put her methods into practice. The Memory Book helps grieving families process their emotions together by remembering their lost loved one and creating their own memory album full of photos and keepsakes of the person they lost. With gentle prompts and ideas for journaling, drawing, and talking through grief, this journal will bring comfort in the midst of loss and be a keepsake for families for years to come"--