Rockford author writes book to help children deal with death
“We are experiencing death at such an incredible rate and its not just the adults controlling it, right? It’s all these children that are seeing it on tv and they’re losing their school teacher or their neighbors,” Barch, who is also the co-founder of Furst Group, said.
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1/19/20221 min read
Talking to children about death can be an uncomfortable subject, so local author Sherrie Barch took on the challenge with her new book, Heaven’s Bell, to try and help families.
“We are experiencing death at such an incredible rate and its not just the adults controlling it, right? It’s all these children that are seeing it on tv and they’re losing their school teacher or their neighbors,” Barch, who is also the co-founder of Furst Group, said.
Melissa Stenstrom recently lost a close family friend. To help her daughter, Berkley, deal with the loss, Stenstrom gave her a copy of Barch’s book.
“I was experiencing [a] loss myself and experiencing my kids going through the same loss at the same time, and trying to try to explain to them,” she said. “So, we were reading in the back seat, and at some point in the book, I just stopped where we were, about…right in the middle of it, and I had to stop and start bawling, like, I couldn’t even look at anybody. I was looking out the window, just trying to keep myself together.”
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