great help to preschooler
Its sad to have to buy a book like this, but it has really helped my 3 year old daughter understand why her parents don't live together anymore. She asks to read it all the time. Even though it is kind of long for a 3yo, she pays attention the whole time.
Great book
My daughter asks me to read this book every day. It helps her to cope and understand divorce. I would highly recommend this book to anyone.
The best book I've found for helping kids with divorce.
When my ex and I were going through a divorce I tried looking through many books to help our kids cope. I found almost all of them to be heavily biased towards either the mother or the father, portraying one as dysfunctional or unavailable.
Since my kids had both a mother and a father who cared about then, I wanted to avoid causing more emotional damage to them by giving them a book which might make them worry that one or the other of us was going to abandon them or start drinking heavily. This book is designed to help kids understand that divorce is not their fault, that they didn't cause it and can't prevent it. It helps them to understand that the situation is not ideal, but that it will work out. I think it helps them to feel more "normal." And it doesn't portray one side as being substantially better parent than the other.
It does have the kids spending more time during the week with the father than the mother. But the time that the kids are with their mother they are happy to be there and doing fun activities, and she offers them important parental advice. I really don't believe that there is a bias one way or the other in this book.
Did the kids enjoy it? Now that our kids have pretty well adjusted to the divorce, two years later they still ask to have it read to them from time to time. I highly recommend this book along with Claire Masurel's "Two Homes" for any parents who desire above all to help their children cope with the anxiety of a divorce.
Excellent book
This is an excellent book for young kids on divorce. My daughter is 5 years old and she enjoyed it very much. It also gets the message across that kids are not to blame for divorce. I would recommend it for kids under 6. I believe it would be too simplistic for older kids.
G Auxier
I found this book to be just too wordy. The concept was good, children do blame themselves for divorce and look for reasons why they caused divorce but this book is more for adults to understand how children come to those conclusions rather than something that would help a child understand. I felt that it was condescending and not at all believable in terms of what a child would say.
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