BOOK: Stepparent's Survival Guide
Author: Suzen J. Ziegahn
Summary:
- Describes what to expect when creating a second family and how to prepare for specific challenges.
- Issues include overcoming alienation, competition, and defensiveness; disciplining children; and creating new stepfamily traditions.
- Assessment questions and exercises help readers develop their own family plans rather than adapt to existing models.
- Charts and worksheets are included.
- Readers develop a personalized plan for blended family cohesion, and learn how to avoid feeling defensive, competitive, and alienated, build healthy relationships in the crucial first year, discipline the children, deal with the extended family, create new stepfamily traditions, and keep the marriage alive.
BOOK: Good Parents, Tough Times How Your Catholic Faith Provides Hope
and Guidance in Times of Crisis
Author: Charlene C. Giannetti & Margaret Sagarese
Summary:
- Examines the rich Catholic spiritual tradition in this guide for parents of children in crisis.
- Focuses on the spiritual well-being of the parent as much as the behavior of the child. The authors draw parallels between the real-life struggles parents face today and those endured by the saints.
- Detailing how the qualities that enabled the saints to face great troubles—charity, knowledge, faith, hope, patience, serenity, truth, and humility—can sustain parents dealing with serious problems in their families.
- Explores how these virtues can strengthen resolve, temper anger, restore energy, and foster open and honest communication between parents and children.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter One: Charity
Chapter Two: Knowledge
Chapter Three: Faith
Chapter Four: Hope
Chapter Five: Patience
Chapter Six: Serenity
Chapter Seven: Truth
Chapter Eight: Humility
Appendix
Resources
BOOK: Parenting With Wit & Wisdom In Times of Chaos & Loss
Author: Barbara Coloroso
Summary:
- Offers opportunities for parents to practice the keys to good parenting: treating kids with respect; giving them a sense of positive power in their own lives; giving them opportunities to make decisions, take responsibility for their own actions, and learn from their own success and mistakes.
- Reveals how daily routines get overshadowed by tragic or traumatic events, it is these same keys that can help children through the chaos and loss.
- Helps parents navigate family waters when they get turbulent. What do we tell out children when their grandfather or mother or sibling dies? How do we handle a serious illness or disability that affects the whole family? How do we break the news of a divorce? And how do we make room for our children’s feelings and needs when we are struggling with our own grief?
Table of Contents
Introduction
A Path Through Grief
Death: Helping Kids Mourn
A Journey of the Heart: Acute Illness, Chronic Illness, and Disability
Divorce
Families Born of Loss and Hope
Mistakes, Mischief, and Mayhem
Life Lessons
Index
BIBLIOGRAPHY for Adults and Children dealing with a loss due to divorce or death
TITLE |
AUTHOR |
ISBN # |
Pub Date |
PUBLISHER |
TOPIC |
101 Ways To Be A Long-Distance Super-Dad |
Newman, George |
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Adult/Parent |
A Parent Alone |
Bosco, Antoinette |
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Adult/Parent |
Are You Listening Lord? |
Peggy S, Margaret Wise |
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Adult/Parent |
Divorce and After |
Bohannon, Paul |
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Adult/Parent |
Divorce and Remarriage |
Doherty, Dennis J. |
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Adult/Parent |
Divorce and Remarriage: Towards A New Catholic Teaching |
Herder, Victor Pospishil |
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Adult/Parent |
Divorce Without Victims |
Berger, M.D. Stuart |
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Adult/Parent |
Divorce, the Church and Remarriage |
Emerson, James |
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Adult/Parent |
Escape From Marriage |
Cantor, Donald |
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Adult/Parent |
Explaining Divorce to Children |
Grollman, Earl A |
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Adult/Parent |
Growing Up Divorced: Children of the Eighties |
Francis, Dale |
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Adult/Parent |
Healing Your Grieving Heart – 100 Practical Ideas for Kids |
Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. |
1-879651-19-X |
2000 |
Companion Press |
Adult/Parent |
Helping Children Cope With Death, Guidelines and Resources |
Wass, Hannelore & Corr, Charles A |
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Adult/Parent |
How Do We Tell the Children? |
Schaefer, Don & Lyons, Christine |
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Adult/Parent |
I’m Divorced |
Buck, Peggy S. |
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Adult/Parent |
Kids Worry Too [English & Spanish] |
Child Life Promotions |
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Child Life Promotions |
Adult/Parent |
Making Your Children Mind Without Losing Yours |
Leman, Kevin |
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Adult/Parent |
Man’s Search for Meaning |
Frankl, Victor |
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Adult/Parent |
Mom’s House, Dad’s House: Making Shared Custody Work |
Ricci, Isolina |
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Adult/Parent |
On Children and Death |
Kubler-Ross, Elizabeth |
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Adult/Parent |
On With the Show |
Aiello, Barbara & Shulman, Jeffrey |
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Adult/Parent |
Saturday Parent |
Rowlands, Peter |
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Adult/Parent |
Single Parenting |
Atlas, Stephen L. |
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Adult/Parent |
Successful Single Parenting |
Bosco, Antoinette |
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Adult/Parent |
Talking About Divorce and Separation |
Grollman, Earl A. |
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Adult/Parent |
The Parents Book About Divorce |
Gardner, Richard |
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Adult/Parent |
Traits of a Healthy Family |
Curran, Dolores |
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Adult/Parent |
When Marriage Ends |
Becker, Russel |
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Adult/Parent |
When You Are A Single Parent |
Jeanne Hunt |
0-86716-519-7 |
2003 |
St Anthony Messenger Press |
Adult/Parent |
When You Are A Single Parent |
DiGiulio, Robert |
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Adult/Parent |
You Say You’re Depressed |
Deffner, Donald L. |
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Adult/Parent |
You’re Divorced, But Your Children Aren’t |
Duncan, T. Roger and Darlene |
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Adult/Parent |
Surviving the Breakup: How Children and Parents Cope With Divorce |
Wallerstein, Judith & Kelly, Joan |
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Adult/Parent t |
Swallowed by a Snake – The gift of the masculine side of healing |
Thomas R. Golden |
0-9654649-0-3 |
1996 |
Golden Haling Publishing |
Adult/Parent t |
Saying Goodbye to Daddy |
Judith Vigna |
0-8075-7253-5 |
1991 |
Albert Whitmand & Company |
Elementary |
A Friend Can Help |
Berger, Terry |
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Elementary |
A Letter to a Child With Cancer |
Kubler-Ross, Elizabeth |
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Elementary |
A New Mother for Martha |
Green, Phyllis |
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Elementary |
Aarvy Aardvark Finds Hope |
O’Toole, Donnna |
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1989 |
Rainbow Connection, 477 Hanna Branch, Burnsville, NC 28714 |
Elementary |
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible,No Good, Very Bad Day |
Viorst, Judith |
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Elementary |
Always, Always |
Dragonwagon, Crescent |
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Elementary |
Angel’s Mother’s Boyfriend |
Delton, Judy |
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Elementary |
Annie and the Old One |
Miles, Misaka |
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Elementary |
Annie’s Four Grannies |
Kroll, Steven |
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Elementary |
Boy, Was I Mad |
Hitte, Kathryn |
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Elementary |
Boys and Girls Book About Divorce |
Gardner, Richard |
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Elementary |
Coping When Your Family Falls Apart |
Booher, Diana Daniels |
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Elementary |
Daddy Doesn’t Live Here Anymore: A Book About Divorce |
Boegehold, Betty |
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1985 |
A Golden Book, New York Western Publishing, Inc., Racine WI 53404 |
Elementary |
DeDe Takes Charge |
Hurwitz, Johanna |
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Elementary |
Dinosaurs Divorce: A Guide for Changing Families |
Brown, Laurene K. and Brown, Marc |
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1986 |
Joy Street Books, Little Brown & Company Bosten Toronto |
Elementary |
Do Dogs Go To Heaven? |
Kotrosits, Lynn M. |
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Elementary |
Emily and the Klunky Baby and the Next Door Dog |
Lexau, Joan |
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Elementary |
Emma Says Goodbye |
Nystrom, Carolyn |
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Elementary |
Everett Anderson’s Goodbye |
Clifton, Lucille |
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1983 |
Henry Holt & Company, NY, NY |
Elementary |
First Snow |
Coultant, Helen |
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Elementary |
Frederick |
Lionni, Leo |
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Elementary |
Garden of Broken Glass |
Neville, Emily Cheney |
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Elementary |
Geranium Morning |
Powell, Sandy |
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1990 |
Carol Rhoda Books, Minneapolis MN |
Elementary |
God Cares When I’m All Tired Out |
Murphy, Elspeth Campbell |
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Elementary |
God Cares When Somebody Hurts Me |
Murphy, Elspeth Campbell |
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Elementary |
God Makes Us Different |
Caswell, Helen |
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Elementary |
God Says “You’re OK!” |
Paolini, Mary |
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1979 |
Regina Press, NY, NY |
Elementary |
God, Where’s My Daddy? |
Furrey, Donna Marie |
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1985 |
Concordia Publishing house, 3558 So Jefferson Ave, St. Louis MO 63188 |
Elementary |
Good-bye Daddy |
Tretiak, Susie |
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1982 |
Susie Tretiak, Omaha, NE |
Elementary |
Growing Time |
Warburg, Sandol Stoddard |
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Elementary |
Hang Tough |
Lancaster, Matthew |
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Elementary |
He Wasn’t Too Young |
Youngman, Christine |
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Elementary |
Help Me Understand |
Mumford, Amy Ross |
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1984 |
Accent Expressions |
Elementary |
How Does It Feel When Your Parents Get Divorced? |
Berger, Terry |
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Elementary |
How It Feels When Parent Dies |
Krementz, Jill |
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1986 |
Alfred A. Knopf, NY, NY |
Elementary |
How It Feels When Parents Divorce |
Krementz, Jill |
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1984 |
Alfred A. Knopf, NY, NY |
Elementary |
How To Get It Together When Your Parents Are Coming Apart |
Richards, Arlene & Wills, Irene |
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Elementary |
I Have Two Families |
Helmering, Doris Wild |
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1981 |
Abingdon Press, Nashville TN |
Elementary |
I’ll Fix Anthony |
Viorst, Judith |
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Elementary |
In the Middle – What To Do When Your Parents Divorce |
Kehle, Mary |
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1987 |
Harold Shaw Publishers, Weaton |
Elementary |
It’s Not the End of the World |
Blume, Judy |
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Elementary |
Jam Day |
Joosse, Barbara M. |
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Elementary |
Jennifer Has Two Daddies |
Galloway, Priscilla |
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Elementary |
Kids Are Non-Divorceable |
Bonkowski, Sara |
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Elementary |
Kids Book on Divorce |
Rofes, E. |
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1984 |
Vintage Books, a Division of Random House |
Elementary |
Learning to Say Goodbye: When A Parent Dies |
LeShan, Eda |
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Elementary |
Living with Death |
Cera, Mary Jane |
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1985 |
Sheed & Ward, PO Box 40292 |
Elementary |
Love Away My Hurt – a Child’s Book about Death |
Mumford, Amy Ross & Danhauer, Karen E. |
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1983 |
Accent Expressions Printing III |
Elementary |
Martha’s New Daddy |
Steele, Danielle |
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Elementary |
Mike’s Lonely Summer- A Child’s Guide Through Divorce |
Nystrom, Carolyn |
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A Lion book, Lion Publishing Corp, 10885 Textile Rd, Belleville,MI 48111 |
Elementary |
Mom and Dad Don’t Live Together Anymore |
Tangvald, Christine Harder |
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Elementary |
Mom Is Single |
Pairs, Lena |
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1980 |
Children’s Press, Chicago, IL |
Elementary |
Mommy and Daddy Are Divorced |
Perry, Patricia & Lynch, Marietta |
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1978 |
Dail books for Young Readers |
Elementary |
Mustard |
Graeber, Charlotte |
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Elementary |
My Dad Lives In A Downtown Hotel |
Mann, Peggy |
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Elementary |
My Grandmother Died |
Hogan, Bernice |
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Elementary |
My Grandson, Lew |
Zolotow, Charlotte S. |
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Elementary |
My Other-Mother, My Other-Father |
Sobol, Harriet Langsam |
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Elementary |
Nana Upstairs, and Nana Downstairs |
DePaoloa, Tomie |
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Elementary |
One More Time |
Baum, Louis |
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Elementary |
Our Family Got A Divorce |
Phillips, Carolyn E |
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1979 |
Regal Books for Young Readers, NY, NY |
Elementary |
Our Family Got A Step-parent |
Phillips, Carolyn E. |
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Elementary |
Please Come Home – A Child’s Book about Divorce |
Sanford, Doris |
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1985 |
Multnomah Press, Portland, OR |
Elementary |
Reaching for Rainbows |
Weems, Ann |
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Elementary |
Someone I Love Died |
Tangvald, Christine Harder |
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Elementary |
Sometimes I Have to Cry |
Murphy, Elspeth Campbell |
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Elementary |
Surviving Your Parents’ Divorce |
Boeckman, Charles |
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Elementary |
The Accident |
Carrick, Carol |
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Elementary |
The Dead Bird |
Brown Buck, |
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Elementary |
The Divorce Workbook: A Guide for Kids and Families |
Ives, S.; Fassler, D.; Lash, M. |
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Elementary |
The Fall of Freddie the Leaf |
Buscaglia, Leo |
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Elementary |
The Kids’ Book of Divorce: By, For and About Kids |
Fayerweather Street School |
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Elementary |
The Red Balloon (about trust) |
Lamorisee, Albert |
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Elementary |
The Snowman |
Briggs, Raymond |
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Elementary |
The Tenth Good Thing About Barney |
Viorst, Judith |
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Elementary |
There Is A Rainbow Behind Every Dark Cloud |
Jampolsky, Gerald & Taylor, Pat |
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Elementary |
Too Many Names |
Peterson, Jeri |
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Elementary |
Tuff Stuff (dying boy’s thoughts) |
Wilt, Joy |
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Elementary |
Two Homes To Live In – A Child’s Eye View of Divorce |
Hazen, Barbara Shook |
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Human Sciences Press, Inc. 72 Fifth Ave, NY, NY 10011 |
Elementary |
Two Special Cards |
Lisker, Sonia |
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Elementary |
What To Do When Mom and Dan Divorce |
Ryan, Trevor |
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1986 |
Abingon Press, Nashville, TN |
Elementary |
What Will I Tell The Children [English & Spanish] |
Child Life Promotions |
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Child Life Promotions |
Elementary |
What’s Going to Happen to Me? When Parents Separate or Divorce |
LeShan, Eda |
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Elementary |
When Your Grandparent Dies |
Victoria Ryan |
0-87029-364-8 |
2002 |
Abby Press |
Elementary |
Where Do I Belong? |
Bradley, Buff |
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Elementary |
Where Do I Fit In? |
Noble, June |
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1981 |
Holt-Rinehart & Winston |
Elementary |
Where Has Grandpa Gone? Helping Children ope With Loss and Grief |
Opp, Ruth |
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Elementary |
Why Did Grandpa Die? |
Hazen, Barbara Shook |
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Elementary |
Why Did He Die? |
Harris, Audrey |
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Elementary |
Just Me And My Dad |
Mayer, Mercer |
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A Golden Book, Western Publishing Co. Racine, WI 53404 |
Elementary Self Esteem |
Just Me And My Mom |
Mayer, Mercer |
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A Golden Book, Western Publishing Co. Racine, WI 53404 |
Elementary Self Esteem |
My Mother’s Getting Married |
Descher, Joan |
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1986 |
Dial books |
Elementary Step Families |
What Kind of Family Is This? A Book About Step Families. |
Seuling, Barbara |
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1985 |
A Golden Book, Western Publishing Co., Racine WI |
Elementary Step-Families |
Getting On With It. |
Slepian, Jan |
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High School |
Holding Me Here |
Conrad, Pam |
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High School |
How to Live With A Single Parent |
Gilbert, Sara |
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High School |
Just the Two of Us |
Colman, Hila |
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High School |
Personal Business |
Leroe, Ellen W. |
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High School |
Putting It Together: Teenagers Talk About Family Break-ups |
McGuire, Paula |
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High School |
Split Decision: Facing Divorce |
Miner, Jane Claypool |
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High School |
Teens Are Non-Divorceable |
Bonkowski, Sara |
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High School |
A Divorce Dictionary |
Glass, Stuart |
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Parent/Child |
Talking About Death: A Dialogue Between Parent and Child |
Grollman, Earl A. |
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Parent/Child |
A Look at Divorce (Non-fiction) |
Forrai, Maria S. |
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Young Children |
Divorce is A Grown-up Problem |
Sinberg, Janet |
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Young Children |
On Death |
Stein, Sara Bonnet |
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Young Children |
On Divorce |
Stein, Sara Bonnet |
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Young Children |
Where Is Daddy? The Story of Divorce |
Goff, Beth |
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1969 |
Beacon Press, Boston MA |
Young Children |
A Season of Grief |
Ann Dawson |
0-87793-978-0 |
2002 |
Ave Maria Press |
Adult |
In Times of Grieving – Prayers of Comfort and Consolation |
Robert M. Hamma |
1-59471-016-3 |
2004 |
Ave Maria Press |
Adult |
Growth In Faith When A Catholic Marriage Fails |
Antoniette Bosco |
1-933066-04-0 |
2006 |
Catholic Book Publishing Resurrection Press |
Adult |
Everyday Epiphanies |
Melannie Svoboda, SND |
0-89622-730-8 |
1997 |
Twenty-Third Publication |
Adult |
Finding Your Way through Divorce |
Kathy Brewer Gorham |
10-1-59471-074-0 |
2006 |
Ave Maria Press |
Adult |
Everett Anderson’s Goodbye |
Clifton, Lucille |
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1983 |
Henry Holt & Company, NY, NY |
Grief |
God Knows You’re Grieving – Things to help you through |
Joan Guntzelman |
1-893732-39-8 |
2001 |
Sorin Books |
Adult |
As You Grieve – Consoling Words from Around the World |
Aaron Zerah |
1-893732-36-3 |
2001 |
Sorin Books |
Adult |
Swallowed by a Snake – The gift of the masculine side of healing |
Thomas R. Golden |
0-9654649-0-3 |
1996 |
Golden Haling Publishing |
Adult |
Healing Your Grieving Heart – 100 Practical Ideas for Kids |
Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. |
1-879651-19-X |
2000 |
Companion Press |
Adult/Parent |
When Your Grandparent Dies |
Victoria Ryan |
0-87029-364-8 |
2002 |
Abby Press |
Elementary |
When You Are A Single Parent |
Jeanne Hunt |
0-86716-519-7 |
2003 |
St Anthony Messenger Press |
Adult/Parent |
Catholic Annulment – Spiritual Healing |
Dennis & Kay Flowers |
0-7648-0883 |
2001 |
Liquori |
Adult |
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READING RESOURCES FOR PARENTS WHO HAVE LOST A CHILD
FAMILY LIFE OFFICE LIBRARY (FLO)
EMPTY ARMS - by Sherokee IIse
MISTY, OUR MONENTARY CHILD - by Carol Gift Page 10 of 11
BRIDGES: GRIEF SUPPORT FOR PARENTS - by Bergan Mercy Hospital
LIMITED LIFE, LASTING LOVE - by Eileen McGrath
NOT IN THE FLO LIBRARY
FINDING YOUR WAY AFTER YOUR CHILD DIES - by Phyllis Vos and Kenneth Wezeman
