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- Title: Healing Words, Healing Hearts: Using Children's Literature to Cope with the Loss of a Pet.
- Author : Childhood Education
- Release Date : January 22, 2006
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 281 KB
Description
Dusty, a bubbly little cocker spaniel with a knobby tail and soft fur, had been Caroline's best friend for as long as she could remember. Dusty had taken naps on the playroom flow with little 3-year-old Caroline, been the guest of honor at exclusive tea parties with 5-year-old Caroline, and the star of many doggie fashion shows with 7-year-old Caroline and her friends. When Dusty died just after Caroline's 8th birthday, the child not only lost her pet, she lost her lifelong best friend and playmate. The empty space left behind by Dusty's passing was a painful hole in Caroline's life that her young heart didn't know how to fill. How do you say goodbye to a friend when you don't even understand where they are going? In modern children's literature, authors are delving into subjects much heavier than those featured in the old "Dick and Jane" stories. Today's children's books are tackling tough issues, such as aging, sickness, death, and the stages of grief. Parents and teachers can draw on this growing body of children's literature to help children begin to understand the concept of death and to experience vicariously the grieving process, possibly for the first time. It is essential, however, that when adults introduce such literature, they understand children's developmental conceptualizations of death and their potential reactions.
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