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¿Qué le Pasó a MI Mundo? Ayudando a los Niños a Hacerle Frente a los Desastres Naturales y a las Catástrofes (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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