Child death awareness month

As October approaches, which is the time that we at the Sad Dad's Club Arizona, observe Child Death Awareness Month, please feel free to choose an image to use on your social media profiles. 💜

Kindness Day 2018 - Reading of the Names

Memorial Day Weekend

For many of us, Memorial Day is just a day off from work or school, but it also is a solemn day for those of us who served their country and lost our brothers and sisters in uniform on the battlefield. It is a day when we remember the sacrifices made by these heroes so we as a nation can always live in peace.

So as you go about your day off on Memorial Day on Monday, put out your flag, attend a commemorative ceremony, place flags in our local cemeteries on the graves of those who served or wear the traditional poppy. Let's honor the memory of those who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country.

They were the sons daughters, husbands, wives, grandchildren and grandparents who are and will continually be missed by their loved ones.

Memorial Day is exclusively for honoring those who died serving our nation during wartime.

Sacrifice is meaningless without remembrance.

June Meeting

June 2017 S.D.C.Group Meeting

Grief Lingers

Others don't seem to understand why the grief of child loss lingers on. In their eyes, losing a child was a terrible tragedy, but one that parents should learn how to "get over" and "move forward." Losing a child is not similar to losing a house or a job or a car. Losing a child is losing part of a parent entire being -- part of the soul. 

This child, this miracle, was part of his/her parents from conception and when that separation took place, there was something known as "heartbreak." Many parents say they knew the exact moment their child died because they felt the pain of that separation clear to their soul.

 This grief is different from all other grief. Parents will grieve the loss of their child forever -- until that time when they are reunited in heaven again. It is this hope of an eternal place called heaven that is often the single most hope that gives parents of loss the ability to continue living after the death of their child. 

So, no, the grief of child loss never ends. It changes, and can feel different to parents as the years move on, but this is a grief that remains forever and ever.

Kindness Day 2016

Join The Sad Dads Club For Kindness Day
Wednesday July 27th @ 6:30pm

We will be having a SPECIAL Sad Dads Club Meeting That Night

OPEN TO ALL, Guys, Gals and Families to honor the children gone too soon for Kindness Day

We will be placing Roses for all the children at 6:30pm

The Angel of Hope
Hansen Desert Hills Mortuary and Cemetery
6500 East Bell Road
Scottsdale, Arizona85254

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Sad Dads Club July

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Kindness Day 2015

Monday, July 27 is International Kindness Project Day.

  

                              THE SANSONE FAMILY SHARING KINDNESS DAY

As I have the last 4 years, I  will be placing 100 roses for the Children Gone Too Soon at the Angel of Hope in Scottsdale as my annual Kindness Day Memorial for the MISS Foundation..Join Me if You Like !   In Memory of Dawn Marie Sansone and All the Children Gone Too Soon

The Kindness Project

Live your life as a memorial to your beloved dead.

- Joanne Cacciatore

Tomorrow is International Kindness Project Day, a day when grievers around the world from the U.S. to England to Paraguay to Botswana to Canada to New Zealand will come together to bring their loved one's presence back into the world so that they are remembered.

I never imagined, when I started the Kindness Project in the summer of 1997, that millions of kindness projects would be committed around the globe.

This project was born in my heart on Christmas eve of 1994. I knew I couldn't spend the money that was rightfully Cheyenne's on my other children. So I took that money and bought toys for underprivileged children, and I delivered them alone the day before Christmas. I dropped them off, wanting as much anonymity as possible, got back in my car hurriedly, and wept for nearly an hour.

It was bittersweet, though much more bitter than sweet at this point.

Some months later, I was in a shoe store buying back-to-school shoes for my children. I overheard a family debating which ones of their many children needed shoes more than the others. They all needed them, commented the parents, but they couldn't afford them. I found the store manager, bought a gift card with enough funds on it to pay for all the children's shoes, wrote on a little piece of paper "in memory of Chey", and I quickly left before he gave them the surprise.

It was only 18 months later that the MISS Foundation was born. I didn't name the MISS Foundation - or any of our programs- after Cheyenne. I chose, specifically, not to do that.

Similarly, I valued helping others anonymously, knowing in my heart that Chey's death had left me with a greater sense of compassion and agape for others, but not wanting to be recognized for it. Truly, it was not about some act of nobility. It was pure love for my child, a strong desire to make meaning, and newfound- profound- compassion for others. I wanted to be her hands and feet in the world. I wanted others to know that this little child lived, this little child died, and this little child continued to matter.

And so my anonymous giving grew. And as it did, the paralyzing grief was balanced by something more numinous, more reflexive, and I felt something in the core of my being- something inexplicable- moving me.

At some point, I realized these acts- both the little and the big- were helping me to cope.

And, I thought perhaps it could help others who were bereaved. Because simply, we cannot serve others without serving ourselves. We cannot give to another without giving to ourselves. We cannot bring comfort to another without bringing comfort to ourselves.

The Kindness Project was born about a year after the inception of the MISS Foundation. Born of pain. Born of compassion. Born of a love bigger than death.

And today, now 21 years later, it is much more sweet than bitter.

I invite you all to join us. For them. For each of us. For the entire world.

Please visit http://www.missfoundation.org/support/kindness to print your FREE cards in English and Spanish and join us in this project tomorrow and every day.

You can also "Like" our Kindness Project page to get updates on the amazing stories we receive from around the world!

Imagine this:

All around the world,

on this one day of the year,

mourners will be transforming their grief into a

powerful message of love, hope, peace, and kindness!

July Sad Dads Support Group

My Facebook Friends !!

Hello My Friends...I ask you to PLEASE Like this page on Facebook Boycott Joel Osteen..His view on Parents who have lost a child is ridiculous.....Basically he is a Moron ...saying Parents who have lost a child "need to get over it and stop seeking attention.......He is a 56 million dollar a year Fool PLEASE LIKE THIS PAGE
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Boycott-Joel-Osteen-on-Child-Loss/862675497152160?fref=ts

My dear friend and mentor in traumatic bereavement, Dr. Joanne Kyouji Cacciatore brought to all of our attention that Pastor Joel Osteen has a chapter in his book wherein he is quoted as saying that bereaved parents who lost their only child were still grieving out of "self pity" and because they "like attention". Needless to say, his belief that we bereaved parents are wallowing in our self pity doesn't sit well with many of us. Joanne contacted Joel Osteen and asked him to apologize to all of us, offering to help counsel him in the bereavement that one experiences after the loss of a child (or children). The door was shut in her face, clearly, so she wrote him an open letter. I love her. Please read, and if compelled, share her letter 

http://drjoanne.blogspot.com/2015/06/be-like-little-children-open-letter-to.html

Sad Dads Club Anniversary

1 year ago this week Barry Kluger invited a group of Dads to a monthly hang at Morton’s in Scottsdale, That night we were interviewed by a reporter named Kevin Kennedy from channel 12, The piece was about Dads who lost a child and also awareness to the Farley-Kluger Bill.
The Reporter dubbed us the Sad Dads Club during interview,

 A couple weeks later we formed the Sad Dad’s Club Social Group and 3 months later Myself AND Theo Soumalis were granted a Dads only group with MISS Foundation. We are now in our 9th month of Support groups for the Dad’s

We have been honored to share children’s stories with many Dads over the last 9 months, and Theo and I would like to say thank you for sharing them with us and others

I wish to thank all those who helped us to this point and to the Dad’s that have joined us here or in support group. Without the help from many, this may have not been a much sought out group for those Dads who share this incredible loss.

On This Father’s Day The Sad Dads wish you a gentle day
Please join us Thursday June 25th ..@6:30pm  MISS Foundation Offices

TV INTERVIEW BELOW FROM 6/2014