Navigating Solo Parenting as a Widow

Whether you’re the parent of a young child or an adult child, or any age in between, these resources can help support you.

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Reading and Movie List

Below you’ll find a carefully curated list of suggested books and movies for widows and their children.

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It Won’t Ever Be the Same: A Teen’s Guide to Grief and Grieving book cover

It Won’t Ever Be the Same: A Teen’s Guide to Grief and Grieving

by Korie Leigh

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Widowed Parents Unite: 52 Tips to Get Through the First Year, from One Widowed Parent to Another book cover

Widowed Parents Unite: 52 Tips to Get Through the First Year, from One Widowed Parent to Another

by Jenny Lisk

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How I Feel: Grief Journal for Kids: Guided Prompts to Explore Your Feelings and Find Peace book cover

How I Feel: Grief Journal for Kids: Guided Prompts to Explore Your Feelings and Find Peace

by Mia Roldan

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A Parent’s Guide to Raising Grieving Children: Rebuilding Your Family after the Death of a Loved One book cover

A Parent’s Guide to Raising Grieving Children: Rebuilding Your Family after the Death of a Loved One

by Phyllis R. Silverman and Madelyn Kelly

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Healing a Child’s Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends and Caregivers book cover

Healing a Child’s Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends and Caregivers

by Alan D. Wolfelt

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Healing Your Grieving Heart for Kids: 100 Practical Ideas book cover

Healing Your Grieving Heart for Kids: 100 Practical Ideas

by Alan D. Wolfelt

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Healing a Teen’s Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends and Caregivers book cover

Healing a Teen’s Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends and Caregivers

by Alan D. Wolfelt

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Healing Your Grieving Heart for Teens: 100 Practical Ideas book cover

Healing Your Grieving Heart for Teens: 100 Practical Ideas

by Alan D. Wolfelt

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Healing the Adult Child’s Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After Your Parent Dies book cover

Healing the Adult Child’s Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After Your Parent Dies

by Alan D. Wolfelt

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Companioning the Grieving Child: A Soulful Guide for Caregivers book cover

Companioning the Grieving Child: A Soulful Guide for Caregivers

by Alan D. Wolfelt

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The Companioning the Grieving Child Curriculum Book: Activities to Help Children and Teens Heal nook cover

The Companioning the Grieving Child Curriculum Book: Activities to Help Children and Teens Heal

by Patricia Morrissey

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Finding the Words: How to Talk with Children and Teens about Death, Suicide, Homicide, Funerals, Cremation, and Other End-of-Life Matters book cover

Finding the Words: How to Talk with Children and Teens about Death, Suicide, Homicide, Funerals, Cremation, and Other End-of-Life Matters

by Alan D. Wolfelt

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Common Sense Media Books About Grief for Kids and Teens

Common Sense Media Movies to Help Kids Deal with Grief

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Support Resources for Widows and Their Children

Children’s Bereavement Center

The goal of the Children’s Bereavement Center and Lift From Loss adult program is to enable children and families to acknowledge change, adjust, and integrate loss with healthful grief and mourning.

Dougy Center for Grieving Children and Families

Dougy Center’s mission is to provide grief support in a safe place where children, teens, young adults, and their families can share their experiences before and after a death. 

Healing Circles for Youth

Healing Circles Global is a nonprofit whose vision is to provide positive social support to anyone who asks for it. Together, you’ll explore ways of deepening your capacity to heal, alleviating your suffering and helping you find meaning.

Highmark Caring Place

The Highmark Caring Place is a safe place where grieving children and families can come together and be with others who understand what they’re going through.

National Alliance for Children’s Grief

Death can change the family structure surrounding a child, and no child should grieve alone. If you are supporting a child who is grieving, the National Alliance for Children’s Grief is here to connect you to resources and local support.

Rainbows for All Children

The mission of Rainbows for All Children is to create a community that connects children with the support they need to navigate grief and heal from loss.

Sesame Workshop

Sesame Workshop helps children understand death and cope with grief. Through support, open conversations, and finding ways to keep the person’s memory alive, families can begin to heal.

Widowed Parent Institute

The Widowed Parent Institute brings clear, practical information, resources, and support to parents who are raising grieving kids and teens.