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For Adults, When Your Parent Dies
Slate writer and poet Meghan O'Rourke has an impressive seven part series that chronicles her experiences after her mother's death from cancer in December. As a writer, she brings those skills of language as well as research to an emotional topic. Quoting everyone from [...]
Live Love Laugh – Cameron G. O’Connor Foundation Fundraiser
3rd Annual Fundraiser to benefit: The Cameron G. O’Connor Foundation …. rippling effects …. Presents an Evening to ~ LIVE ~LOVE~LAUGH~ Saturday, March 28, 2009 7:30pm – Midnight Sons of Italy, 19 Prentiss Road, Arlington, MA 02474 Tickets: $20.00 “The mission of the Cameron [...]
A String of Memories
“This was my great grandmother’s memory string,” Laura told Whiskers in a loud voice. “Then it was my grandmother’s, then my mother’s, and now it’s mine.” The Memory String by Eve Bunting is a book about a girl named Laura who tells her cat [...]
Children’s Room Consults with AFD Theatre on Their Production of Pulitzer Prize-Winning Play: Rabbit Hole
When Arlington Friends of the Drama Theatre Director Kevin Mark Kline wanted to find someone to talk with the Rabbit Hole cast about how families deal with grief, Production Manager Ginger Webb began to make inquiries. Ginger soon found that all inquiries led her [...]
Parenting Through Grief Workshop: Helping your Teenager Through the Loss of a Loved One
The Children’s Room sponsors a series of parent to parent workshops so our “alumni” parents can share with others their insight and experience of what it is like to be a grieving parent and a grieving adult who wants to go on living fully. [...]
Join us for the Facing Peace Exhibit Opening Friday, November 14th at Lesley University
You are invited to attend an inspirational exhibit to be held at the Marran Gallery at Lesley University. We encourage everyone to attend the exhibit and the opening reception. The Children's Room is proud to to support Lesley University. Many of our staff and [...]
One Family’s Story from our Memories Walk
Our Communications Director Anne Favaloro shares her family’s personal story with the Medford Boat Club to express her gratitude for their sponsorship, which made our event so meaningful for them. We have reproduced it here with her permission. […]
