Immediate reassurance  When children first find out that their parents are getting a divorce they may wonder what will happen to them.  Once a parent has left, they may wonder if the other parent will leave them, too.  They need immediate reassurance that they will be cared for by a responsible parent. Honest age appropriate […]

For the last fourteen months Southwest Airline Safety Specialist and GriefWorks Volunteer Brent Askins has entered in a significant, healing way into the lives of children, teens and their adult family members who are struggling with grief.  Some children have lost a parent, others a sibling, and some a grandparent or close family member or […]

Curled up in a porcelain bathtub that had been donated to my elementary school library to encourage kids to read, I read, for the first time, about a girl going through her parents’ divorce.  I couldn’t put the book down.  Judy Blume had single-handedly pulled me out of my distaste for reading and provided a […]