Greif picture book

Living with Grief

By:Audrina sutphin

Jack is a normal 10 year old boy who lives and florida,loves baseball.
Jack's best friend is his goldendoodle teddy. They adopted teddy
when jack was 7 and ever since then they have been inseparable they
never left one and others side.

Every saturday they would wake up a 7 AM then jack and teddy would go play
fetch on the beach and then each get 3 scoops of ice cream. (Jacks mom
doesnt know that part).

One saturday Jack ran down stairs screaming “ Come on teddy lets go to the
beach”. Strangely teddy didn't come so ajck went to check on him and he was
still asleep jacks said “ silly teddy”. Jack went to go pet him and realized he
wasn't breathing.

Jack says “I must be sleeping it definitely a bad dream.”He must be acting
he's always been a silly boy”. I am going to wake up and me and teddy are
going to have the best day.

Jack say to his mom “ If you would have let teddy sleep with me this
never would have happened, I HATE YOU”. Jack say to his mom “ your
the worst you basically killed me too I can never trust you again I am
leaving”.Slams the door.

Jack says to himself “ I should have never left his side I knew it was a bad
Idea. I can't believe I yelled at him for taking my shoes. I should have given
him the treat he wanted. Its all my fault.

It's been a month since teddy death Johnny's mom is getting concerned the
only time Johnnys left his room is for meals. He was sleeping all the time and
all johnny's mom heard was tears.

It's been 2 months since teddys passing, Jack is coming out of his room for
the first time. He finally smiling and he going out to play baseball with his
friend. Jack is learning to deal with the loose of teddy.

Authors note

Grief is real and we all need to embrace are emotions instead of hiding them.
Grief looks different for everyone and healing take time. It's important to
show your feeling and go through the stages of grief. I was inspired to write
the story about jack and his dog to show that griefing comes in all different
shapes and sizes and its okay to be hurt. It's important to no grief doesn't
have to come from death it could be something as small as losing a shirt and
not just adults greif kids too.