When a child is born, the parents celebrate, and all their family and friends celebrate with them. But if that child dies--before birth, or as a baby, teenager, or adult--it sometimes feels as if the parents grieve alone. Surely only a bereaved parent can know the excruciating pain, stark terror, and devastating upheaval experienced by a person whose child has died. But those people close to a bereaved parent also have pain, fear, and discomfort--and the frustration of not knowing what they can do to help. Bonnie Hunt Conrad is a firsthand authority on child-death grief. Her experience is the kind of tragedy all parents fear most: her nineteen-year-old daughter was shot to death at a fairgrounds in 1983. During the grieving process she has had to deal with an entire "wash cycle of emotions," including shock, terror, denial, guilt, anger, helplessness, and perhaps worst of all, the feeling that she was insane. One of the meaningful insights Bonnie Hunt Conrad acquired from her experience is that parents usually need help to overcome the ruinous and debilitating effect their child's death has had on them. This help can come from professionals, but it can also come from anyone at all, at any time and in any place. Short and to the point, this guidebook provides an easy-to-read reference for bereaved parents and all others struggling to understand the feelings and behaviors of a parent in grief.
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In the 56 easily-read pages of this book, Bonnie Hunt Conrad explains the broad spectrum of feelings and conflicts experienced by parents whose child has died. She offers practical, specific examples of how friends and family, as well as caregivers, can reach out and help the grieving parents in the immediate aftermath of the loss and in the years ahead. A definite resource for support group facilitators. -- SHARE, October 2, 1995
This book is very helpful for any parent experiencing bereavement. The author addresses one of the more difficult questions for family and friends, "What do we say?" -- Texas Baptist Leadership Magazine, January of 1996
This book is very helpful for any parent experiencing bereavement. The author addresses one of the more difficult questions for family and friends, "What do we say?" -- Texas Baptist Leadership Magazine, January of 1996
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When Bonnie Hunt Conrad's daughter died in 1983, she was so immersed in grief that she couldn't answer her friends' well-meant plea, "What can we do to help?" This book, the result of her own experience and of her interviews with other bereaved parents, answers that plea, and also discusses: what bereaved parents are feeling, how to express your sympathy, how to deal with their fear, guilt, anger, how to honor the memory of the child, and how to reintroduce the parents to life.
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