Bad Stuff in the News A family Guide to Handling the Headlines

by Gellman, Rabbi Marc; Harman, Monsignor Thomas

• ISBN13: 9781587172328
• ISBN10: 1587172321
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-01
• Publisher: Chronicle Books

Summary

In this essential handbook for modern youth, the nationally admired rabbi-and-priest duo known as the God Squad help readers cope with front-page news disasters--from the terrorist attacks of violence, substance abuse, environmental destruction, and hate crimes that plague our world. With exceptional compassion and insight drawn from years of counseling experience as clerics, they explore the complex factors leading to such tragedies; then, they reveal what can be gained from dealing with the "bad stuff" rather than hiding from it.

Author Biography

Rabbi Marc Gellman is one half of the well-known "God Squad," along with Monsignor Thomas Hartman. The two are authors of Lost and Found: A Kid's Book for Living Through Loss and How Do You Spell God? Answers to the Big Questions from Around the World . He

Monsignor Thomas Harman is one half of the well-known "God Squad," along with Rabbi Marc Gellman. The two are authors of Lost and Found: A Kid's Book for Living Through Loss and How Do You Spell God? Answers to the Big Questions from Around the World . He

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vi
Terrorism	p. 1
When bombs explode and planes get hijacked and buildings blaze with fire and lots of people get hurt and die
When angry and hateful people threaten and destroy life
When people who say they have an important message send only a big and scary message of violence
Kids Killing Kids	p. 13
When kids bring guns to school and shoot people for no reason
When kids beat other kids
When school doesn't seem safe anymore
Hunger Near and Far	p. 27
When you see starving children who look like skeletons with big eyes
When you see people sleeping in refrigerator boxes
When kids have no money for lunch
When poverty stares you right in the face
The Wild Earth	p. 39
When you see pictures of a house floating down the street
When you see towns crumbled up in an earthquake
When forest fires burn trees and animals and houses for miles and miles
When the earth looks wild, mean, and very scary
Crash, Smash & Burn	p. 47
When you see pieces of an airplane floating in the water or scattered in a field
When a ship sinks and people drown
When a train goes off the tracks
When cars crash and kill people
When the things we build to help us end up hurting us
Please Don't Hit Me	p. 57
When you hear about kids beaten or even killed by their own parents
When you see wives scared of their husbands
When adults sexually abuse children
When home isn't the safest place for you to be
The Hate That Leads to Harm	p. 65
When you see people hurt others because of the color of their skin or their religion or where they're from
When people hate governments so much that they blow up buildings
When hate is so strong, it leads people to kill
Really Bad Sports	p. 73
When you go to see a good game but end up seeing a bad fight
When people play to hurt and not for the love of the game
When parents don't play by the rules of sportsmanship
When sports are dangerous and not fun
Mucking Up the Earth	p. 81
When dead fish float down a polluted river
When you see oil-covered birds and otters after an oil spill
When food you think is safe is a poison
When clean air and clean water and clean dirt are hard to find
When people mess with the environment
Sad & Scary Addicts	p. 89
When you see famous people ruined by drugs
When you see ordinary people killed by drunk drivers
When drug dealers shoot people and get shot
When people think that they need chemicals to be happy
Sick, Dying People	p. 99
When little babies who didn't do anything to anybody get sick and die
When diseases spread all over the world and kill millions of people
When old people forget who they are
When people have to fight their bodies to live
Bad for Them, Good for You?	p. 109
When you see stuff on TV that upsets other people, but not you
When your clothes or music freak out your parents
When the bad stuff doesn't seem so bad to you
Life Isn't Perfect Yet	p. 115
When you finally understand that life isn't perfect and that this is perfectly okay
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