How to talk to your children about tough times.

We've all become more heightened to trauma, loss, and change these days. New fears and vulnerabilities have taken hold. These are difficult times to navigate, whether the trouble be national headlines or personal pain in a family.

The Stand Tall Discussion Guide by marriage and family therapist, Dr. Catherine Hart Weber, is an effective way for generations to connect. Stand Tall is a multi-generational story that follows a hugely tall twelve-year-old boy named Tree and his family through a year of change, loss, challenge, and healing.

The guide is designed for families and other groups to read through the novel and explore how this family faces their problems, makes mistakes, but learns coping strategies to overcome with humor and courage. The guide, available here soon on-line, is divided into three parts:

Section 1.

• Lessons from the Life of a Tree
• Seasons (Why are there seasons? What do they teach us?)
• Growing Through Change

Section 2.

• Dis-ability (Living with it--Understanding what it's not)
• Developing a Motto (What we want our lives to be about)
• Divorce (The pain, the reality, and how to face it)

Section 3.

• The Wars We Fight (In our hearts and elsewhere)
• Grieving Losses
• Growing Through Stress and Trauma

If you want to be notified when this guide is available, please contact us at LETTERS at JoanBauer.com