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Bullying

Stop Picking On Me: A First Look at Bullying by Pat Thomas (A Review)

Stop Picking On MeAbout the Book

Stop Picking On Me: A First Look At Bullying by Pat Thomas is part of the “A First Look At…Book” designed to help kids in Kindergarten through 3rd grade cope with different events and circumstances they may find themselves in.

Who Is This Book For

The book is meant to help kids understand bullying including who does it, why it happens and how to prevent it. The targeted age group is kindergarten through 3rd grade though we think it would be beneficial if read to younger kids and even for slightly older elementary aged kids who could read through it themselves.

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May 19, 2017by Wayne Stocks
Grief

The Jesus Comfort Quilt by Jane Van Antwerp (A Review)

Jesus Comfort QuiltAbout the Book

Jesus Comfort Quilt is unique book designed for kids and adults grieving a loss. Part coloring book and part guide through the grieving process, this unique book will help kids and adults understand the grief process while creating a quilt from the various coloring pages.

Who Is This Book For?

This designed for kids ages 5-12 but will be a benefit to teens and younger children as well. The book has been used extensively by grief support groups as well as pastors and counselor supporting grieving children.

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May 2, 2017by Wayne Stocks
Divorce and Family Disruption

The Switching Hour by Dr. Evon Flesberg (A Review)

Introduction

Every year in the United States, roughly one million kids experience the divorce of their parents, witness the destruction of the only family that have ever know, and begin a new and fundamentally altered life.  It is a life that was not of their choosing and a life that very few, if any, of them ever would have chosen for themselves.  It is a life of constant transition – a life which reminds them over and over of their parents’ divorce.  It is the beginning of a life, for many, that entails moving from the their mother’s home to their father’s home and back again over and over and over again.  It is the beginning of a lifetime of switching hours.  Each year between 18 and 20 million kids live the life of the switching hour.  The Switching Hour: Kids of Divorce Say Good-Bye Again, published in 2008 and written by Dr. Evon O. Flesberg, looks inside the hearts and minds of the millions of kids who shuffle back and forth between the worlds of their divorced parents.

About the Author

Dr. Evon Flesberg works with children, parents, and families in her counseling practice in Nashville, Tennessee. She grew up in the Midwest, is ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and earned her Ph.D from Vanderbilt University where she is currently an assistant professor of the practice of pastoral care and counseling in the Divinity School.

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February 6, 2017by Wayne Stocks