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It’s our job to equip our kids and give them that honest dialogue and conversation to be up-front and answer whatever question they have. These are hard questions that all parents get. He was six years old at the time, but asking, “Why did the police kill that Black man?” There are equally hard questions often about death and understanding why things happen and why people get sick and die. So when we talk about race in the wake of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery, I try to give him some reality with maybe sugarcoating it a little bit. Kyla Pratt Shares Her Love for the Cast of ‘Call Me Kat’ This book is timely for the very young who are trying to adjust, understand, and adapt to losing somebody significant like a mom, a dad, a grandmother, or a grandfather. He is hopeful that one day he will get to see Grandma P and meet his paternal grandfather in Heaven. Let’s address death in a palatable and understandable way so they have some understanding that they will see their loved one again. This is a major adjustment, and kids have to deal with these new realities.

That means more than 200,000 children have lost a parent or grandparent during the past two years due to COVID. There was a journal in Pediatrics that came out a few months ago that said that one in four of those deaths were a primary caregiver. Now, with the pandemic, we see that we just passed that grim milestone of 900,000 American lives lost due to COVID.

I thought we were gonna see her out of the window, you know - we’re looking at heaven.” I thought it was sweet that he had this interest in knowing about his grandparents and then trying to go to whatever length to get to heaven to see them. He was looking out the window and said, “I don’t see her.” I asked, “You don’t see who?” He said, “I don’t see Grandma P. I want to go see her.” He asked me how to get to heaven, and that moment inspired me. While I showed him pictures, he said, “You know, I want to go to heaven. He doesn’t remember Grandma P, who died when he was just one year old. My son came home and asked, “How come Santino has two grandmas and grandpas and I just have one?” We talked about how both my parents are still alive, but my husband’s parents both passed away. Tell me about some of those conversations. How High is Heaven? is inspired by conversations between you and your son. Lindsey sat down with BGN over the phone on Februto discuss her newest release. One of his recent questions about loved ones who have passed encouraged her newest book How High is Heaven? The picture book explores meaningful themes (such as, where our loved ones go, how we miss them, and the hope that one day, we will reunite) in a way that is accessible for children and parents.