An estimated eight to 10 million American children are ``latchkey kids'' who after the school day return to an empty house or apartment and take care of themselves until their parents get home from work. This helpful book is written for members of such families to read together.

Teaching Your Child to Be Home Alone

Parenting & Relationships

Grollman, Earl A.

Sweder, Gerri L.

Parenting

Lexington Books

Provides useful information to help children feel confident and secure staying by themselves before or after school, raising issues like loneliness, boredom and safety

Macmillan Pub. Co.

Teaching Your Child to be at Home Alone

Random House Value Publishing

For all whose lives are touched by the devastation of Alzheimer's disease, When Someone You Love Has Alzheimer's offers guidance, comfort, and hope. This clear, compassionate guide explains: how Alzheimer's is diagnosed and what course it takes; how Alzheimer's affects memory, emotions, and behavior; which symptoms of Alzheimer's can be treated; the spiritual and emotional challenges that caregivers face; how to handle an Alzheimer patient's bizarre behavior; how to explain Alzheimer's to children; how to balance the patient's needs with your own; and when and where to seek help.

When Someone You Love Has Alzheimer's: The Caregiver's Journey

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Kosik, Kenneth S., M.D.

Diseases & Physical Ailments

G.K.Hall & Co.

Why do people die? How do you explain the loss of a loved one to a child? This book is a compassionate guide for adults and children to read together, featuring a read-along story and answers to questions children ask about death. Talking about Death is a classic guide for parents helping their children through the death of a loved one. With a helpful list of dos and don'ts, an illustrated read-along dialogue, and a guide to explaining death, Grollman provides sensitive and timely advice for families coping with loss. This redesigned and updated edition explains what children at different developmental stages can and can't understand about death; reveals why it's crucial to be honest about death; helps you understand the way children express emotions like denial, grief, crying, anger, and guilt; and discusses children's reactions to different kinds of death, from the death of a parent to the death of a pet.

Talking about Death: A Dialogue between Parent and Child

Children's Books

Beacon Press

Why do people die? How do you explain the loss of a loved one to a child? This book is a compassionate guide for adults and children to read together, featuring a readalong story, answers to questions children ask about death, and a comprehensive list of resources and organizations that can help.

Talking about Death: A Dialogue Between Parent and Child

Why do people die? How do you explain the loss of a loved one to a child? This book is a compassionate guide for dults and children to read together, featuring a read-along story, answers to questions children ask about death, and a comprehensive list of resources and organizations that can help.

Talking About Death

Beacon Pr

A read-along picture book explaining death to young children with an extensive guide for parents. Includes lists of pertinent organizations, books, tapes, and films.

Talking about death: A dialogue between parent and child

Psychology & Counseling

Self-Help

Death & Grief

A guide to helping small children of divorcing parents understand and accept the fact that their parents are no longer able to live in the same residence together. Includes a parents' guide, sources for further help, and a bibliography of fiction and non-fiction about divorce.

Talking about divorce: A dialogue between parent and child

Family Relationships

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Teaching Your Child to Be Home Alone

Teaching Your Child to Be Home Alone

Teaching Your Child to be at Home Alone

When Someone You Love Has Alzheimer's: The Caregiver's Journey

Talking about Death: A Dialogue between Parent and Child

Talking about Death: A Dialogue Between Parent and Child

Talking About Death

Talking about death: A dialogue between parent and child

Talking about Death: A Dialogue Between Parent and Child

Talking about divorce: A dialogue between parent and child