Children and Grief: Helping Your Child Understand Death [Paperback]

Joey O'Connor (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2004

This is a book written for you and your children," explains Joey O'Connor. "It initiates a conversation on a difficult subject most people prefer to avoid. It is about people like you and me struggling to figure out what they really believe when the unbelievable has happened. And then wondering, 'What in the world am I going to say to my kids? How am I going to explain what just happened in our family and what I believe about the God who saw this whole thing happen?"

Children and Grief offers parents a way to approach these tough questions with honesty, tenderness, and hope. O'Connor shows how to teach children to trust God, celebrate life, and have hope in the face of death.

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From the Back Cover

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.

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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 252 pages
• Publisher: Revell (November 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0800759761
• ISBN-13: 978-0800759766
• Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 0.6 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #443,910 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Joey O'Connor is an award-winning screenwriter, author, pastor, speaker and retreat leader. He is the author of nineteen books for couples, parents and young adults. He is the founder and executive director of The Grove Center for the Arts & Media, a ministry dedicated to nurturing the spiritual development and creative vision of artists.

Joey is also the producer of the award-winning short film series, Unthinkable: The Scott Rigsby Story. With his screenwriting partner, Ken Straw, they have won five screenwriting awards in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, New York, and Virginia. They currently have a feature film in preproduction.

Joey and his wife, Krista, live with their four children in San Clemente, California. He loves to read, surf, hike, run, play with his kids and look for sea glass.