Researcher: Your job is to find some background information related to an important idea in the reading. Search through available references such as library books, reference books such as the encyclopedia, magazines. You might even interview someone who knows about your topic. Find some websites on the Internet so that you can do your investigation online. Share an interesting tidbit related to your reading.
Please respond to one other Research entry.
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The idea that I chose to investigate is Loss: How should adults help children cope with loss?
There are many types of loss and death happens to be one the most tragic. I can only imagine the turmoil that occurs when an adult is trying to help their children as well as themselves get through such an unfortunate time. I have never had to be a support to a child in this manner, but through my online research and information that I've acquired through Foster parent training I have learned that their is a process that occurs and the steps are unique for each person. I believe that of all the ways a parent can help their child to cope it is very important to "be honest, encourage questions, create an atmosphere of comfort and openness, and send the message that there's no one right or wrong way to feel." http://kidshealth.org/parent/emotions/feelings/death.html
While researching I came across Ralph Fletcher's website. It's pretty good.
http://www.ralphfletcher.com/teacher.html
Also my wife is one of 10 children. Being a member of a large family has a lot of great advantages but also unique disadvantages. This website http://www.lotsofkids.com/ has tips for families who have more than four children. It offers advice from everyday things like bathroom schedules to more serious issues like parenting. I was pretty impressed by its content and layout.
ok there is a ton of fig pudding recipes...just thought I would share. I had a hard time with this response. I guess I would ask students to begin researching the author and his other books, an author study if you will. Some places I started with is ralph fletcher's website (see mr. P blog). I also was interested in his other books (as mr. p mentioned in another blog) if they shared some of the same idea's etc. Did he use his own childhood experiences? etc.
I too chose to research how children cope with the loss of a loved one. I spoke with a children's grief counselor and she told me that it's a very slow process and depending upon the age of the child, she uses play therapy. She also uses writing techniques with older children. She has flash cards with different words describing feelings, also colors and places. She has the child choose some words and make a poem out of those words to describe how they feel. She has support groups for the children alone and with adults.
This comment is in response to Mr. P. My husband comes from a family of nine, aren't holidays fun? My father in-law came up with a unique solution for the bathroom issue. He had the hot water heater set so you could only get 3 minutes of hot water in the shower!
My response is to mmmrag, I too would research loss However I'd be more interested in students Identifying the stages of grief, particularly in the case of Nate. his feelings of anger at his brother for not paying attention, seems unfortunate. But my concern is that he was more angry with himself, than his brother for feeling the way he did.
Also mmmrag, the kids I work with who have had similar abandonment issues and express anger over loss.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/103716/how_siblings_of_autistic_children_can.html?cat=5
My research involved the copimg mechanisms of sibs of autistic children. My older daughter Sarah is autistic. My younger daughter Suzie ( nearly 3 years younger) than Sarah has had a lifetime of sharing the pain, and often the hilarity of events that inevitably take place at the most inopportune times (like the time at a crowded McDonald's near the Mystic Aquarium when Sarah, aged 8, disrobed while Suzie and her 5 year old friend waited helplessly as i finally got to the head of the line to place our order. The manager approached me to discusss the situation as if it were a lapse of judgement on my part. I turned to see Suzie struggling to put the shirt on her much larger and uncooperative sister and told her that I appreciated her concern and would help Suzie dress Sarah as soon as i received our lunch.) Our family has been indelibly shaped by Sarah's extraordinary needs as have those of many families and this topic could be very fruitfully explored In the context of Fig Pudding.
I respond also to the comments in my group about loss and the pain of loss . As we actively live our life there are those quiet moments that wash over us as we mourn the loss of the girl that Sarah might have been, as we love, with all our hearts the young woman that she is.
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