First of all, I'm not a parent of a grieving child. But as a grieving teenager, I thought this might help me know how to move forward. (Plus, you know, doing research for my next book, lol.) For that purpose, this wasn't exactly what I was hoping for. It certainly exposed me to helpful principles and understand why I and those around me are acting the way we are about what we're grieving, though.

But for a parent of a grieving child, I think this would be an amazing resource. It gives a ton of practical advice about how to help your child mourn in a healthy way and then live again. It tackles many different situations and issues parents and their children may face and gives ideas for how to deal with each issue. It talks not only about grieving death, but grieving divorce, illness, separation, moving away from their friends and home, etc.

I do think that this was targeted towards parents of kids 10 and under. While the principles seem applicable to any situation, many of the practical tips seem more applicable to younger kids. Of course, I'm no counselor, so I don't really know the best practices. But I would be frustrated if my parents tried to help me grieve by doing things that would be more helpful to a kindergartener.

The author offers her help and hope in a compassionate way, not only telling you how to take care of your children, but urging you to take care of yourself as a parent, too. Though I did cry once or twice as I grieved what the book was discussing, the book was strangely detached and unemotional to me, though. But maybe that's me.

I also am unsure how I felt about a bit of the theology in this book, but I think I need to do further research before saying anything here. :)

Overall, great book if you're a parent of a grieving child. Really, it can be helpful to anyone grieving, or who knows someone grieving, just to varying degrees.

I almost skipped this book, but I loved the cover and thought why not take a closer look? I'm so fortunate that I did. I've been struggling to help my emotionally sensitive son with his best friend moving to another school, his older brother going away to college (each time he comes home for break and leaves the grieving starts all over again) and losing his therapist who moved to the other side of the United States who was really great at helping him with instances in some instances. I'd always try to reinforce the skills he was obtaining in therapy with the word. So, I'm more than delighted to have this biblically based tool to help us moving forward, for the first time in a very long time I feel hopeful. I'll be using this book for many years to come and recommending it to anyone struggling to help their grieving child.

When Your Child Is Grieving: GOD's Hope and Wisdom for the Journey Toward Healing would have been quite useful when my were struggling with the death of their grandfather. I will be recommending it to other.s Five plus stars.

Such great information that you wouldn't readily process when going through a traumatic situation. The information provided in the book - easily applied to adults and how they deal with grief. I think this book would be great for a parent and child to read and process together.

Really not sure about this one. Had high hopes but not sure it was excited quite right. There were some good points don’t get me wrong, but not quite what I’d expected

DNF 25%
3 'This book shouldn't have been about religion but it was' Stars
I wanted to read this book so much because of what it promised, the struggles of a child who is going through the process of grieving and a parent's guide of how to understand and deal with it.
I mean it's not bad at the educational front, it's informative and useful for which I really liked this book
But....Oh my, the religious preachings.....I get it you love Jesus, want us to love him too, Jesus spoke to you, you are married to a preist and truely I'm all for that. I've nothing against whichever religion you chose to belong.
But kindly when you bring a book which is for and about education, please leave the religion out of it.
You are a PhD and when you mix your beliefs which education, it's makes the book seem phony rather than educational. Even when it is educational!
If you ask me, this book is only for those who are or have Christian parents because they are the only people who have been addressed throughout the entire 25% I've read of this book, even when the author says otherwise.
This was the one thing that kept on distracting me all the time - as Christians parent we face this problem...., as Jesus said...., as Christians....
I felt the author was too busy addressing those who belonged to her religion than actually all the people who wanted to get to know something from this book.
So folks, only read it if you are a Christian, otherwise you can't help but be bummed about reading something you are not a part of.
It felt more like a religious book rather than an educational one for me.