Remembering My Grandparent

Nechama Liss-Levinson, PhD, is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice and author of When a Grandparent Dies: A Kid's Own Remembering Workbook for Dealing with Shiva and the Year Beyond; Talking to Children about Death; and Remembering My Pet: A Kid's Own Spiritual Workbook for When a Pet Dies, as well as many articles on developmental milestones in the Jewish family, and the emotional impact of death and illness on children and adults. She lives on Long Island, New York, with her husband and two daughters.Nechama Liss-Levinson PhD is available to speak on the following topics:Musings, Milestones and Mayhem at MidlifeNot Your Bubby's Bubby: Being a Modern Jewish GrandmotherTalking to Children about DeathWhen a Grandparent Dies: Helping the Whole Family to CopeWhose Bat Mitzvah Is It Anyway? Coming of Age and Coming TogetherRev. Molly Phinney Baskette, MDiv, is senior minister of First Congregational Church of Somerville, United Church of Christ, in Somerville, Massachusetts, and has worked with children in crisis in the United States and abroad.

• What This Book Is About and How to Use ItA Message for ParentsA Message for KidsPart One: Remembering after the FuneralAbout the FuneralAfter the FuneralHow My Grandparent DiedMy Special Remembering PrayerBe a Memory DetectiveMy Memory Detective NotebookMemory Detective BiographyPhoto Memories of My GrandparentPart Two: Remembering throughout the Whole YearNames in My FamilyMy Family TreeHow I Am Like My GrandparentComplaints DepartmentMy Grandparent's GravestoneVisiting the CemeteryRemembering by GivingMemory Detective Mind BendersPart Three: Remembering during the HolidaysChristmasThe Taste of ChristmasAsh WednesdayEasterVacationAll Saints’ Day and Día de los MuertosThanksgivingRemembering My Grandparent in the Circle of LifeGlossary & A Note to Kids Who Used This Book

"An excellent resource to help children understand complicated concepts surrounding life and death."—Catholic Library World "Provides children with a focus on something positive and constructive, giving them a concrete way to express their feelings of loss.... Excellent.... A treasure to be preserved by children to one day be shared with their own offspring."—Montreal Anglican “Offers tools to help youngsters understand and work through their grief.”—Publishers Weekly “At Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, we struggled to develop an episode to help young children deal with death. The authors of Remembering My Grandparent have taken exquisite care to get it right. They understand that the loss of a grandparent is not a one-time event but an ongoing feature of a young child's life.... The exercises give room for grief to blossom into a blessing. I am glad my own grandchildren will be able to use this book some day.”—Eliot Daley, former producer of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and author of Father Feelings“Finally, a book to help parents help their children cope with the loss of a loved one. Opens the discussion on a topic most families don’t discuss because they simply do not know how.”—Rev. August Gold, author of Does God Hear My Prayer and Where Does God Live?“A much-needed tool for helping a child remember, honor and celebrate a grandparent who has died. [Will] strengthen the family bond between parent and child that is often stressed by the experience of death and grief.”—Rev. Dr. Frederick J. Streets, chaplain, Yale University, and faculty member, Yale Child Study Center“Beautiful. Heals and celebrates ... a godsend at the time of a grandparent’s death. The pages unfold with clarity and simplicity, which lets grief be grief ... and then hope.”—Rev. Maren C. Tirabassi, author of Improbable Gift of Blessing