Straight Talk about Death for Teenagers: How to Cope with Losing
- ISBN: 0807025011
- Item #: 0807025011
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Straight Talk about Death for Teenagers: How to Cope with Losing
An insightful
theologian/grief
expert (``the cure
for grief is to
grieve'') opens with
Terry Kettering's
attention-grabbing
poem, ``The Elephant
in the Room.''
Teens' grief--like,
Grollman suggests,
the huge (but
unobserved)
elephant--is often
overlooked or
minimized.
Addressing this gap,
he presents just a
few on- target,
incisive lines on
each page--to be
read, like poetry,
with
deliberation--on
topics such as ``the
first days after a
death'' and ``facing
your future.'' The
occasional humor is
not inappropriate
(``Why is there a
special relationship
between grandparents
and grandchildren?
They have a common
enemy--the
parent''); but the
treatment of special
relationships and
circumstances
suffers from
Grollman's brevity.
He acknowledges that
it's normal to feel
that one's own grief
is the worst; some
teens will be
disappointed not to
find their
particular situation
treated more fully.
Still, all are
likely to find
consolation in the
book as a whole, and
in completing (in
the concluding
workbook pages)
statements like
``The last thing I
did with you
was...'' and ``What
scares me the most
is.
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