I would like to share this Guest Post with you because I can relate to parents whose child is missing  as my daughter passed away     in a accident and even though she isn’t  missing Suzzane is  gone and will never return home.

Helping Parents of Missing Children Through Terrible Milestones

For parents of children who are missing, taken by a relative or alienated, every day is a terrible milestone. With each passage of time clothes are outgrown, seasons are missed, and we feel like it’s been too long.

Every season is painful because you go through it without your child.

It used to be that certain things would remind me of our child, a toy, a sound, a smell. Eventually, everything reminded me of them.

In the midst of all this, some people have told us to give up. 

They weren’t trying to be cruel; they were trying to release us from the pain of hoping. I could tell that it was breaking their heart to see us hurting. But it was still hard for us to hear. Snapping at anyone who ever made an insensitive remark would only make them afraid to say anything, and eventually it would make us strangers.

I didn’t want to go through this alone. 

Someone once told us that when comparing our situation to dying refugee children in Syria, ours wasn’t that bad. I thought of Men in Black when one character is told that it is better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all, and the character snaps back, “Try it!” (Watch it at www.MarieWhiteAuthor.com. Click on the “Strength for Parents” tab.)

I also had to avoid the tendency to become overly critical of others. Instead I needed to see their hearts. Anything that someone says to us during this time can hit us wrong. Even when someone says that everything will be fine, I want to scream, “How do you know?”

On cold days, I wonder if my child is cold. When the news says that a child has been hurt or a house has caught fire, I watch to see if our child’s picture flashes across the screen. But it doesn’t, and the world keeps spinning.

I know that time doesn’t stop for anyone. I wish it would though. I would stop time until our child comes home, and then time could start again.

How do we answer the question of how many children we have? How do we answer when someone asks us where our missing child is? Those questions hurt every single time. Understanding these thoughts will help you to support your friend.

But when our loving friends and family send a card, an email or a text just saying that they love us and are there for us, it means the world.

The best thing you can do to support a family with a child missing from their lives is to let them know you’re thinking of them and their child.

By faith we can choose the future over the moment. James MacDonald

Marie White a TEDx speaker, multiple award-winning & bestselling author of 8 books, host of the Vetting the Hype podcast, reaches almost a million viewers on YouTube and is the director of publishing for Zamiz Press. You can connect with Marie at.

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For the budding author in every family. 
Sophia wants to write a book, but she can’t because a dog can’t hold a pen.

She needs your help.

Will you help Sophia write her story?
Finally, a book that kids write themselves. 

This book looks like a real book, because it IS a real book!

Sophia’s owner begins each chapter and Sophia jumps in.

Young authors decide what will happen next.

Short enough to keep kids engaged.

Long enough to allow the imagination to run wild.

The book ends with brainstorming for the next book and an introduction to storyboarding.

Librarians: 
   Sophia Wants to Write a Book is the perfect prize for summer reading programs.

It can also be used for classes on story structure.

Additional ideas are in The Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease.

Teachers:
Sophia Wants to Write a Book teaches creative writing skills that cover these reading standards:
*           who, what, when, where and why
*           describing how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges
*           story structure
*           differing points of view (narrator and characters)
*           using illustrations to demonstrate understanding of characters, setting and plot
*           compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story by different student authors
*           describe characters in a story, including motivations and feelings, explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events
*           determine the theme of a story and summarize
*           describe in-depth the character, setting or event, with specific details such as the characters’ thoughts, words or actions
*           quote accurately from the text when explaining what the text says explicitly and drawing inferences from it
*           compare and contrast two characters, drawing on specific details of how the characters interact
*           compare and contrast the point of view from which the story is narrated, including the difference between first and third person narrations

Therapists:
Sophia Wants to Write a Book explores fears, dreams, being faced with rules and being made to do an undesirable task (bathing). It is a great conversation starter, bonding tool and enjoyable home assignment.

Perfect for advanced 6 year olds through middle school.