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Teenagers
& Grief : Coping with Loss
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RRP :AUD$17.95
Teenagers and Grief is a superb guide for teenagers and parents alike. Parents will find ways to help their children by showing them how to cope with loss and helping them to express their grief, thoughts and feelings. There is also critical information on when parents need to seek urgent outside help. Several teenagers express their feelings in the book and these give us an insight into the depths of their grief.
This is an insightful, tender book written by Doris Zagdanski who is a recognized professional specializing in the field of grief awareness. With over 25 years experience as an educator and author, she is sought after as a keynote speaker and trainer for health care providers, schools, churches and community organizations.
Essential reading for anyone who deals with teenagers on a regular basis.A teenager – no longer a child, yet still not an adult. Expected to behave like an adult, but not knowing how to.
Twenty years ago Doris Zagdanski wrote ‘Many teenagers grieve silently’. Does she still hold this view all these years later? The answer is simply ‘yes’.
The death of a parent, sibling or friend is devastating for the teenager. Apart from death, in today’s world, the most common way young people experience grief is through divorce, separation, a re-marriage or creation of a blended family. Other triggers include loss of home, pets and personal property through fire or flood, obesity or poor body image – not being ‘pretty enough’ or ‘slim enough’, loss of friendship – boyfriend or girlfriend, loss of trust because of sexual abuse, bullying, learning that you were adopted or lack of success at school.
Grief can cause increased risk taking, on-going depression and in severe cases, suicide.
Reflux
Reality : A Guide for Families
By : Glenda Blanch
RRP : AUD$24.95
"Reflux Reality: A Guide for Families" offers comprehensive advice and practical guidelines and support. It is the essential book for any family with a baby or child that suffers from reflux.
'Having barely existed through reflux with both of our boys when they were babies, I know first hand how challenging those days can be. How much more supported I would have felt if I had had a book like this.' - Felicity Chapman, Founder and Director, Mothers Be Heard.
The author Glenda Blanch is the mother to three children who have all suffered reflux and its complications. She has experience as a registered nurse and so armed with both medical knowledge and life experience she is the ideal person to what written this book. She has an insight into the medical aspects of the condition, knows what parents want and need to know and conveys the information in a language that is easy to understand. She has also worked tirelessly for the Reflux Infants Support Association Inc for many years.
What About Me?
by George Vlamakis, Illustrated by Elise Hurst
RRP $15.95
Jamie is typical of many children who are the siblings of seriously ill children. He feels left out and confused because his parents have to devote the bulk of their time to his sick sister, Susie. Jamie feels angry and resentful, jealous and sad. Sometimes Jamie 'acts out' to get his parents' attention, other times he withdraws in silence. Jamie is desperate for his parents to understand how he is feeling, and help him find a path forward. He wants nothing more than to feel the unity and closeness of family once again. WHAT ABOUT ME? provides a strong message of understanding, love and uniqueness for the sibling. It will help parents understand the feelings of the sibling child and give a healthy re-focus on the family as a unit.
Yoga, A Magical Gift for All Ages
By Jane Wiesner
RRP : AUD $15.95
Magic Me is the second in a series of books (Who Am I? being the first) by author Jane Wiesner, to introduce children and adults to the magic of yoga. It is primarily a children’s picture book but can be used as an instruction book for anyone interested in yoga – it is simply an interactive journey of fun and fitness for all age groups.
Schools are now starting to teach children yoga and parents also are learning the benefits of buying yoga books for children and teaching them at home. Magic Me is perfect for this purpose.
Reasonably priced, beautifully illustrated and easy to read
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Peacetimes
by Katherine Scholes & Illustrated by Robert Ingpen
RRP $17.95 AUD
From an internationally respected
author comes this amazing book.
"Peacetimes" brings the message
of peace in a fully illustrated age appropriate manner to children. It
is practical and helps children to understand that peace is not just something
outside of them but involves them directly where they live and play. This
remarkable book sets new standards in children's literature.
"Peace is not a gap between times of fighting, or a space where nothing
is happening. Peace is something that lives, grows, spreads and needs
to be looked after ..... because peace begins with you in your own backyard"
What's Dead Mean?
by Doris Zagdanski
RRP $15.95 AUD
In an era filled with change, grief
and trauma a revolutionary new approach for children emerges. "What's
Dead Mean?" is a true activity book specially written to help children
cope with death. This outstanding work combines drawing and pasting with
facilitated talking to help parents, teachers, child care workers, or
indeed anyone faced with the challenge of communicating this vital, and
often neglected, message to the young.
At traumatic times it can be difficult to find the words to say, and to
overcome the grief of the situation to be present for the hurting child.
"What's Dead Mean?" opens the doors for the essential communications
to take place whilst providing the safety of knowing what to say in answer
to all the difficult questions children ask.
Breaking through the taboo, this book presents the issues surrounding
death in a clear and age appropriate manner providing opportunity for
both adult and child to discuss this important, potentially awkward subject
in a frank and earnest manner.
"What's Dead Mean?" is a ground breaking activity book which
goes way beyond the levels that other books strive to achieve. This is
an amazing and timely addition to the reading collection of every family
and is set to reach new heights.
We the Earth
by Katherine Scholes & illustrated by Shane Nagle
RRP $20.00 AUD
"We the Earth" is an illustrated book for all ages. Based on the Gaia philosophy a simple but powerful blend of science and poetry that explores the relationship between people and the Earth - from the planet's point of view. The book deals with important ideas that are ancient in origin but are only now re-emerging in modern Western thought.