An estimated 6 million children in the United States will experience the death of a parent or sibling by age 18 - that’s about 1 in 12 children!

The Grief Rock - a new children’s book by therapist Natasha Daniels - takes a refreshingly honest look at the experience of grief…to help the drastic surge in grieving kids!

THE GRIEF ROCK

A Book to Understand Grief and Love

NATASHA DANIELS – CHILD THERAPIST

The death of a parent, sibling, or other important person in a child's life is one of the most frequently reported disruptive childhood experiences…and without appropriate support, can lead to adverse health and welfare outcomes.

When Natasha Daniel’s healthy 42-year-old husband suddenly died of a blood clot, she and her three children were thrown into the darkness of grief. Her children experienced difficulty eating, sleeping and focusing. People treated them differently and they lost some friends. They had to learn how to navigate in a world that felt upside down.

Inspired by conversations with her own grieving children, Natasha Daniels wrote The Grief Rock: A Book to Understand Grief and Love. The Grief Rock goes beyond the surface platitudes that many other children’s grief books provide and offers validation of the physical and social implications one often experiences with grief. It also helps children understand that often our grief is so big because our love is so big.

Talking points:

-How children grieve differently than adults

-The most commonly missed issues children have when grieving

-The unspoken struggles of child grief

-Helping a child through grief while going through your own grief

-The first crucial steps to take when a child is grieving

-How to help kids with sudden loss

-How to help young children through the grieving process

-Why the stages of grief

-Handling widowhood and single parenting

-What schools should know to help grieving kids

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Natasha Daniels is an anxiety and OCD child therapist and has published four other books including How to Parent your Anxious Toddler, Anxiety Sucks: A Teen Survival Guide, Social Skills Activities for Kids and It is Brave to Be Kind. She also hosts the AT Parenting Survival Podcast and has a Youtube channel, Ask the Child Therapist. You can find her work at www.ATparentingsurvival.com

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