[Note: It has recently come to light that the author of the book this video series was based on has been expelled from The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators for violation of their harassment policy as reported by Deadline.] Thirteen Reasons Why, a video series based on a best-selling teen novel, is the story of a 17 year old …
Thirteen Things to Talk to Your Teen About 13 Reasons Why: Episode 1-Peer Suicide & Rumors
[Note: It has recently come to light that the author of the book this video series was based on has been expelled from The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators for violation of their harassment policy as reported by Deadline.] Thirteen Reasons Why, a video series based on a best-selling teen novel, is the story of a 17 year old …
Family Time Movie Theater: Dealing with Death
Death doesn’t get addressed in American society. Consequently, we have little help in dealing with the grief that comes from the death of someone you love. This leaves parents with the task of finding ways to help their kids to have an understanding of death and, as importantly, about the importance of grief and grieving. Here is a list of …
When Your Kid’s Friend Dies: What to Expect The First Month
Confronting the death of someone you love and was an important part of your everyday life is deeply painful. When your kid experiences the death of a friend, they have no reference point for how to deal with the loss and weave a life together without the presence of their friend. There are several good books for teens about death …
Teenage Peer Suicide Part 2-Helping Your Kid Get Through It
Helping your kid make sense of death is one of those serious and painful jobs parents face. Helping your kid make sense of teenage suicide can feel nearly impossible. One way to prepare yourself is to know something of why people commit suicide and how kids react to that kind of tragedy. (See part one of this two part blog …
Teenage Peer Suicide Part 1-Helping Your Teen Make Sense of It
Helping your kid make sense of death is one of those serious and painful jobs parents face. Helping your kid make sense of death by suicide can feel nearly impossible. If you are faced with this daunting parenting responsibility, it can help to know something of why people commit suicide and how kids react to that kind of tragedy. Why? …
Helping Your Kid Comfort A Grieving Friend
Teenager’s, as we all know, think they are invincible. Most of them also have a hard time making sense of events and situations that require a perspective greater than “what am I doing this weekend.” This makes supporting a friend who has suffered a death in the family particularly difficult (“What do I say — and what do I NOT …
Helping Your Middle School Kid Grieve When A Teacher Dies
Jim Benton, a teacher at Grassland Middle School in Franklin, Tennessee, died unexpectedly of an undiagnosed medical condition while on a field trip with some of his students. Here are a couple of things to consider in helping your kid understand and deal with death when it comes to a teacher they and their friends knew in a setting like …
The Heart and Soul of the Next Generation by Michael Bradley
I get really emotional thinking about people who make heroic sacrifices. It is something that maintains my hope in humanity. The odd thing is I am not talking about the heroes you read about in the news. You are not likely to hear of the ones I mean. They are quiet and unassuming. Their heroism is the ordinary, profound sort …