MY HEART HURTS: A Child's Experience with Death

MY HURT HURTS!This book is to my darling grandson, whom I love dearly. It's alsoperfect as an example of how you can explain the life cycle anddeath to small children. Unfortunately, my grandson lost someonevery early in life. When he'd spoken to me by phone and was cryinghard about the loss of that person with his voice cracking, he said, “Grandma, my heart hurts so bad!" That statement broke my heart andstill touches me to the core, whenever I think of it. Tools were neededto help him through to recovery.Unfortunately, only a year later the trauma would rise again. But thefamily now had tools. This brief story of that trauma is in an age-appropriate format. Children feel loss the same as an adult may.However, they are often overlooked because adults are either concernedwith their own emotions; or think small children don’t notice that a personis missing from their life. Little ones may not have the vocabulary of anadult but do deserve the time, attention, and understanding of what happened. As well as the assistance in the management of those emotions. Read more