Introduction . . .

    “Who can know how parental grief will express itself? The answer: Only the parent who is grieving knows; they learn it along the journey.

      “Included within these pages are my interviews of parents who have experienced the death of a child. They recount what happened with honesty and dignity, outlining for the reader how their loss occurred, how their lives were changed and the ongoing lifelong path on which tragedy took them.

    “Who can know what to say, what not to say, what helps and what hurts a parent who is grieving? And which of us really knows where we will be or what we will experience in our lives before we pass? So let us leave our prejudices of what ‘Should be done,’ or ‘What we would have done,’  behind.

    “The idea for this book came from my personal experience which started when my younger son Brandon first told me he had colon cancer. On the other end of the phone, I could barely breathe. Shock set in after hearing what he explained about his illness. I hung up the phone and cried, knowing he had an uphill battle...”

                                                                                                                       . . . Holly Fox Vellekoop

"How to Help When Parents Grieve"

is now available as a Kindle book

at Amazon.com and as a Nook book at BarnesandNoble.com