The books my kid is currently obsessed with Keep reading!Ī post shared by Linsey Davis podcast I’m listening to right nowĪ colleague and a friend of mine, Rebecca Jarvis at ABC, does The Drop Out and so I’ve been listening to that podcast and I often listen to Jesus Calling for a little bit of daily meditation, affirmation, and just a connection biblically. “And so that’s what my hope is, that this book will provide kids with some comfort.”ĭavis’ son is now 8, and while we look forward to the next book inspired by his curious young mind, we asked the busy working mama to share the products she loves that help her parent right now. “This is not a hard-hitting look at death by any means, but I will say that for my son, the idea that he would see her again - that this was not goodbye, but see you later - that was comforting to him,” says Davis, who is vocal about her Christian faith.

Released in February, How High is Heaven? is hitting bookstore shelves as we’ve learned that the COVID-19 pandemic has left an estimated 200,000 American children orphans, making it an unexpectedly timely resource for grieving kids, as well as those who are simply questioning. I thought that we would see her while we were up here in heaven.’ And in that moment, I thought, this is a conversation that I’d love to bring to a book.” “I thought that it was just going to be a one-off conversation,” she says, “but fast forward to a few months later, we were on a plane and he was looking out the window and he said, ‘I don’t see grandma. After Davis talked about the grandma who had passed, telling her son that she was in heaven, he said he wanted to go see her. But as a mom, Davis has been on the receiving end of some pretty hard questions herself, and one of them inspired her latest side project and fourth children’s book, How High is Heaven?Īs the two-time Emmy Award-winner tells it, her then-5-year-old son came home from school one day asking why his friend had two grandmas and grandpas, while he had just one of each.

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