Helping Your Young Child Cope with a Parent's Deployment

Helping Your Young Child Cope with a Parent's Deployment is a lively and practical guide for military parents (and grandparents and other caregivers) of young children coping with deployment. Saying goodbye for about a billion days is a high-stress experience for children. Parents worry: What do my kids need in order to thrive? How can I help them cope? What kinds of activities foster a meaningful connection across the miles?

Jerilyn Marler--who has been a military child, military wife, and military mom--answers those questions and more with cheerful wisdom. She includes 22 fun ways to help kids before and during deployment. Military parents who want the best for their children should keep this book handy.

Author: Jerilyn Marler
Publisher: Quincy Companion Books, Imprint of Wyatt-MacK
Published: 02/26/2012
Pages: 42
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.12lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.10d
ISBN: 9780985234805

About the Author
Marler, Jerilyn: - Jerilyn Marler--a former military child, military wife, and military mom--focuses on helping children and parents thrive during deployment separations. Jerilyn wrote "Lily Hates Goodbyes" for her 4-year-old granddaughter who was deeply distressed by her daddy's deployment. The book helped Lily so much that Jerilyn published it for all young children who suffer through long separations from a loved one. She offers cheerful wisdom and creative ideas for adults in "Helping Your Young Child Cope With a Parent's Deployment." A writer and editor since 1979, Jerilyn wrote three books about WordPerfect for MIS: Press; edited dozens of technical books; and has written/edited end user documentation for more products than she can count. Jerilyn is happily retired and lives near Portland, Oregon, with Dan, her husband.