Change and uncertainty are difficult for most everyone.

And 2020 has been a roller coaster of emotions, loss, change, and uncertainty.

Especially for kids.

As a parent, you want to protect your kids. You want to help them grow into resilient and confident adults.

Part of that is helping them process difficult discussions and situations. Sometimes it's hard to know how to talk about things like illness, loss, or big transitions and change.

Things that can make adults anxious and feel overwhelmed.

Changes and uncertainty are part of life though. So how do we help our children process and deal with change and uncertainty in a healthy way?

My guest on this episode, Susie Harder, talks about a creative way to do that. Pulling from her background as a speech therapist and a mom, she created an innovative way to help parents guide their children through difficult discussions of change, loss, and uncertainty.

Susie is the founder of the Junior Author’s Program, a community project that engages students around the world in collaboratively writing a children’s book.

Not only does it help students participate in a meaningful project, but the storyline of the book itself is written to help the children who lost their home in the Central California Creek Fire.

Proceeds from the sale of the book will be given to the families who lost their homes in the devastating fire.

We talk about:

• What a speech pathologist does to help kids
• How being a mom has affected being a speech pathologist
• The unexpected moment with her son that sparked her idea to create the innovative Junior Author’s Program
• What the Junior Author's Program is all about and the bigger vision for it
• How she suggests navigating conversations with your kids around sensitive topics

Connect with Susie:

https://www.juniorauthorsprogram.com

https://www.facebook.com/juniorauthorsprogram

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