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Disappointing

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I expected a lot more from the Dougy Center, which purports to be the leading organization for grieving children in this country. I created and ran a children's grief support center for more than a decade in addition to working in the field of grief for more than 25 years. I was hoping this book would greatly enhance the work I was doing and was disappointed at many levels. There are significantly better books out there for anyone interested in helping grieving children.

Light touch on a deep subject

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While the individual tips are certainly valid and helpful, an overall organizing principle to group tips might increase the effectiveness of the book. The brevity of tips makes the content accessible, but does not provide much depth topic by topic. In addition, the very compelling illustrations that are included in the book are not tied into the text they accompany. More insight into the background or intent of the drawings would be valuable (while preserving confidentiality of course).

Well Done	Customer Rating:
Congratulations to the Dougy Center Staff for creating this book. It is a much needed resource. I also purchased After the Tears, A Gentle Guide to Help Children Understand Death (video) The two are awesome resources for children. Keep up the good work.

World Trade Center attack: Bereaved children will benefit.

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The deaths at the World Trade Center and Pentagon triggered a strong reaction in me, especially when I read how many children had lost a parent, because I lost both parents when I was young (my father when I was 4, my mother when I was 5). Recently I had started a small e-mail group of adults who went through similar parental-loss experiences, and it has been very helpful to meet others who went through this. This book has helped my thinking – children see things differently from adults, and feel things differently, and this book explores all that. As a social worker in a former career, I facilitated bereavement support groups at a major Manhattan cancer agency, and realized the bereavement process is a long one even for adults. One of my desires at this time is to connect with those who lost friends or family members in the terrorist attacks (or those who know them), so that I and those in my group might directly or indirectly offer supportive insights. If we could be of help, please get in touch. ...