search for books and compare prices
Tables of Contents for Take My Hand
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
11
4
Part I: Tough Lessons About Life...and Death
15
40
It Will Affect Them
19
10
How Can We Tell That Our Children Are Grieving?
20
2
What Can We Do or Say?
22
1
How Long Will Grieving Take?
23
2
When Do Our Children Need Extra Help?
25
4
Most People Can't Talk About It
29
6
Why Are People Reluctant to Talk About the Deceased?
30
2
Why Is It Dangerous Not to Talk About Death?
32
1
What Should We Teach Our Children?
32
3
Troubles Come in Bundles
35
6
How Do These Troubles Affect Our Children?
38
1
What Should We Teach Our Children?
39
2
Life's Not Fair
41
4
What About Sympathy?
42
1
What Should We Teach Our Children?
43
2
Grief Comes in Waves
45
4
How Is Grief Expressed in Children?
46
1
How Long Do the Waves of Grief Keep Coming?
47
2
Good-bye Is Not Forever!
49
6
What Does It Mean to Have Treasures in Heaven?
51
1
How Does God Plant Eternity in the Hearts of Our Children?
52
3
Part 2: Tough Questions Parents Ask
55
46
What About Tears---Theirs and Ours?
58
13
Why Are We Afraid to Express Our Grief?
59
1
What Is the Typical Grief Process?
60
3
What Are Age-Typical Responses to Grief?
63
4
What About Our Tears?
67
4
To Talk or Not to Talk?
71
5
Why Is Communication Difficult?
72
1
Why Is Communication Necessary?
72
2
How Do We Help Our Children to Talk?
74
2
Their Curiosity, Our Pain?
76
6
How Does a Child Think?
77
1
What Are a Child's Basic Reactions to Grief, Based on Personality?
78
4
Should Children Attend the Services?
82
10
How Can We Encourage Our Children to Participate?
83
3
How Do We Respond to the Heart of Our Children's Questions?
86
1
How Do We Help Our Children Say Good-bye?
87
5
To Remember or to Forget?
92
5
Should Children Remember or Forget?
93
1
How Do We Help Our Children Remember?
94
3
How Do We Pray?
97
4
How Can We Help Our Children Pray?
98
3
Part 3: Tough Questions Children Ask
101
26
What Happens When You Die?
104
10
What Do Children Say?
105
2
How Can We Help Our Children Understand?
107
1
What Does the Bible Say?
108
2
What Do Children Want and Need to Know?
110
2
What Is Normal Behavior As Children Try to Understand?
112
2
When Can I Go to Heaven to Visit?
114
3
What Does the Bible Say?
115
1
What Can We Do Now?
115
2
What Is Heaven Like?
117
5
What Do Children Say?
117
2
What Does the Bible Say?
119
3
What Is Forever?
122
5
What Signs and Questions Show Us That Children Don't Understand?
123
2
How Can We Help Our Children Understand?
125
2
Part 4: Tough Questions Children Don't Ask
127
32
Did I Cause It?
131
5
How Do Children Express Deep Emotion?
132
2
How Can We Help Our Children Deal with Guilt?
134
2
If I Get Sick, Will I Die, Too?
136
6
What Behaviors Say Children Are Dealing with the Fear of Dying?
137
1
What Can We Do to Help Our Children?
138
4
Will You Die and Leave Me, Too?
142
6
How Is Fear of Abandonment Expressed in Children?
143
2
What Can We Do to Assure Our Children?
145
3
If I Talk About It, Will It Make You Sad?
148
5
Why Do Some Children Talk, While Others Are Silent?
149
1
How Do We Balance Children's Needs with Ours?
150
3
If I'm Naughty, Will You Die?
153
6
Isn't It Good to Be Good?
154
2
What Do We Do with Our Bad Behavior?
156
3
Part 5: The Ultimate Question: Why?
159
12
Why Would a Good God Allow This to Happen?
162
9
What Causes Us to Question God?
163
3
What Helps Us When We Don't Know Why?
166
5
Afterthoughts
171
4
Resources
175
8
Notes
183