Life Grows Around Us: Parenting Your Tween Through Grief

Parenting Through Grief: Helping Your Tween Navigate LossGrief is never easy-especially 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 differently-but 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'