had to he put in order, and each sister had a quarter o f the little plot to do what she liked had roses and heliotrope,

Little Women (1868) The grief gardening counseling model I use when

working with bereaved children assumes that they

know best about their own personal grief experiences.

As caring adults and professional caregivers, our job is to observe their behaviors

and listen to what they have to say-and to leam from them. Our job is never to

prescribe what a bereaved child should be thinking or feeling. Instead, it is our

job to listen and watch as he teaches us what his grief journey is like.