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Reviews

A Child's Grief: Surviving the Death of a Parent

As an adult who lost her mother at 14, I offer kudos to Judy Strong for her compassionate look at the needs of grieving children. Society's "no talk" approach to parent loss needs to change, and Judy Strong's book is an excellent resource for enlightening caring adults about how to create that change. Understanding and responding well to a child's grief is vital to his future mental health and happiness. Strong's children experienced the loss of their dad, and through helping her children through the valley of grief, she discovered what kids need to grow up feeling whole. I wish this book had been around for my relatives to read when I was a kid!

Tina Feigal, M.S., Ed.
Parent Coach and Author of The Pocket Coach for Parents: Your Two-Week Guide to a Dramatically Improved Life With Your Intense Child

 Judy Strong discusses a difficult topic with the voice of experience and a gentle straightforwardness. In an easily accessible style the book presents information from professionals, as well as Strong’s own life experience, about what grieving children need to find their way back from sorrow. To help others understand children’s reactions to a parent’s death, Strong also provides many examples of the behaviors children who are grieving may exhibit. A Child’s Grief: Surviving The Death of A Parent will be a great resource to anyone—parents, family members, friends, teachers, counselors— who wants to understand how children grieve and to know how to support children during their journey of bereavement.

Mary Linda Sather, Educator and Author of Boo Boo Bear’s Mission: The True Story of a Teddy Bear’s
Adventures in Iraq

A resource for bereaved children and adults who care for them
A Child's Grief is a small sensitively written handbook that packs a valuable range of resources for those working to comfort bereaved children into a compact form. (5.0 out of 5 stars) Read more.

Midwest Book Review

Reviewed by Carol Hoyer, PhD, for Reader Views

A gentle, optimistic book about the resolution that is possible when we lead children through the grieving process.
Strong hopes that adults will educate children about death and grieving before they actually lose a family member, this book would be very accessible to a parent who is grieving the loss of his or her partner. It is gentle, encouraging, and easy to follow. The length would be just right for someone who is seeking guidance but is also overwhelmed with managing day-to-day tasks after suddenly becoming a single parent. (5.0 out of 5 stars) Read more.

Feathered Quill Book Reviews

No Time to Grieve  

The loss of a loved one can be so devastating that we may not be able to comprehend life’s tasks or make sense out of our world. While some grief books may be too long to bear, author, Judy Strong has created a simple survivor’s pocket guide…giving us the tools to manage the unbearable.  

Kian Dwyer, author of Living Your Chosen Eulogy: Choosing to Live Your Most Honorable Self

To author’s daughter, Jennifer
Dear Jenny, first the book arrived today and I have looked at it. Boy…did it bring back a flood of memories. I started crying, yes, I still do cry, and put the book down for now. Thank you for sending it. Your mother definitely put it just like I remember. 

 

 

From friend Sheree

To author’s daughter, Amy
WOW!! I saw the book that your mom wrote. What an accomplishment! I actually have a background in Estate Planning. I’m a paralegal, and the things she wrote in there about setting up affairs and the like is really important. She did such an awesome job of explaining things concisely and in “plain English."
 

 

 

From friend Robin