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What Happened to MY World? Helping Children Cope with Natural Disaster and Catastrophe
(PDF) is a resource for parents, teachers, and anyone working with
children. Adults and children throughout the United States witnessed the destruction
from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, perhaps the largest natural disasters in United
States history. Millions of people were directly affected, and hundreds of thousands
suffered significant loss or trauma.
What Happened to MY World was written by Jim Greenman, Senior Vice President
of Education and Program Development for Bright Horizons Family Solutions, to help
adults peer into the minds of children from infancy through the teenage years, and
understand their confusion, fears, grief, and struggles to help them cope with sudden
disruption to the world as they know it. It is to help both those who experience
and survive catastrophe firsthand, as well as children who witness from a distance
and wonder what it was like or whether someday they will find themselves in similar
circumstances.
Extraordinary events like these test us all as citizens and human beings sharing
a planet. They test us as parents, both as guardians of our children trying to keep
them emotionally safe, and as our children's teachers trying to raise them to become
enlightened and empathetic adults. Children grow into the kind of people they will
become at least in part by how we guide them though their questions, concerns, and
fears, and whether we use the teachable moments thrust upon us to provide them with
support, care, and guidance.
To order copies of What Happened to MY World for your Colleagues and Friends
please call 615-256-9915 x1831 or e-mail afrey@brighthorizons.com.
All proceeds go to the Bright Horizons Foundation for Children, creating partnerships
to comfort children and families in crisis.
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