Life Grows Around Us

Parenting Through Grief: Helping Your Tween Navigate LossGrief is never easyespecially when it's your child who is hurting. When loss enters their world, tweens often struggle to express their emotions, leaving parents feeling helpless. Life Grows Around Us is your essential guide to understanding, supporting, and guiding your child through one of life's toughest experiences.This compassionate and practical book helps parents recognize the signs of grief in tweens, communicate in ways that foster trust, and provide the tools they need to process loss in a healthy way. From emotional outbursts to silent withdrawal, every child grieves differentlybut with patience, honesty, and the right support, they can heal.Whether they're mourning a family member, friend, or beloved pet, this book empowers parents to be a steady presence, helping their child build resilience, find meaning, and move forward while keeping their loved one's memory alive. Because grief may change them, but it doesn't have to break them.Includes actionable ways to help your tween cope with loss:Memory Box ActivityConversation StartersCreating a 'Grief Plan'

Parenting Through Grief: Helping Your Teen Navigate LossWhen a teenager experiences loss, grief can feel unpredictable and overwhelming. As a parent, you may struggle to reach themwondering whether to give them space or encourage them to open up. Life Grows Around Us is your guide to supporting your teen through one of life's most difficult experiences, helping them process their emotions while maintaining trust and connection.This compassionate and practical book explores how grief manifests in teenagersthrough mood swings, withdrawal, academic struggles, or sudden changes in behaviorand provides actionable strategies to help them cope. With expert insights, real-life examples, and thoughtful conversation starters, you'll learn how to foster resilience while respecting their unique grieving process.Whether they've lost a parent, sibling, friend, or mentor, this book equips you with the tools to be their steady anchor. Because while grief may change them, your support will help them find their way forward.Includes actionable ways to help your teen cope with loss:Writing and Expression ExercisesLetters to your Loved OneRelfection Exercises

Parenting Through Grief: Helping Your Young Child Navigate LossWhen a young child experiences loss, their world can feel confusing and overwhelming. As a parent, you may wonder how to explain death, comfort their big emotions, and guide them through grief in a way they can understand. Life Grows Around Us is your compassionate roadmap to supporting your child through one of life's hardest moments.This practical guide helps parents recognize how grief appears in young childrenwhether through tears, questions, or changes in behaviorand provides gentle, age-appropriate ways to talk about loss. With expert insights, healing activities, and emotional reassurance, you'll learn how to create a safe space for your child to grieve while maintaining stability and hope.Whether they've lost a grandparent, sibling, friend, or pet, this book empowers you to be their steady anchor. Because grief may change them, but with love and understanding, it won't define them.Includes actionable ways to help your child cope with loss:Memory Box ActivityFeelings MapStorytelling Activities