Katie the Ladybug: Explaining Emotions of Grief to a Child. This item is unavailable.Katie the Ladybug: Explaining Emotions of Grief to a Child

"Katie the Explaining Emotions of Grief to a Child" is intended for young children who may have difficulty understanding the concepts of loss, grief, and the emotions that accompany these experiences. With the help of Katie and her family, adults can creatively explain these complex ideas to a child-ideas that may otherwise be more difficult to explain. In the story, each of Katie’s brothers and sisters experiences a different emotion as a result of her death. Children sometimes struggle to understand emotions because they tend to think only in concrete terms, while struggling to think abstractly. With this in mind, each character has a different color scheme and facial expression that parallels with his or her emotion. For instance, Molly is sad because of Katie’s death; therefore, she has blue dots, she is crying, and her facial expression illustrates her sadness. When explaining the concept of sadness to a child, you may explain that when we lose someone special, we may be sad, which is OK. Katie’s family will take you and your child through a journey of seven different emotions that may be experienced as a result of loss. At the back of this book you will find questions that will stimulate meaningful conversation about what has been read with your little one. About the Jesse Roberts lost his mother at the young age of 4 and his father at the age of 16. His personal experiences with grief inspired him to write "Katie the Explaining Emotions of Grief to a Child" as a senior in high school, but it wasn’t until his senior year as a psychology major at Gardner-Webb University that he dusted off the manuscript and submitted it for publication. In addition to being a full-time graduate student in the Mental Health Counseling program at Gardner-Webb, Jesse serves as a Community Bereavement Counselor in the foothills of western North Carolina.