What to Do When You Don't Want to Be Apart

My 16 year old autistic son had to go to a hospital for several months, and he had never spent time away from his family. This book was instrumental in helping him make this transition. It helped us support him emotionally by deeply exploring situations, feelings and the pain of being separated from someone that you love. It provided a “deep dive” into the subject while avoiding simple platitudes.

This book really helped my six year old… therefore, helped mom and dad , too! :) We would work through a chapter together each day before school. Vocalizing and writing down her feelings eased her fears a bit , and the step by step plans helped motivate and comfort her. The verbiage used was simple and encouraging!

My daughter entered first grade last month and has been experiencing separation anxiety since she spent the summer at home. Our pediatrician recommended this book series to help her develop coping techniques and provide conversation starts/talking points so that I can help her at home. We are about 75 to 80% of the way through the book and I've noticed a great improvement. One of the points in the book that continues to stick with her is that "Mom always comes back". The book suggested we write it down, so we put it on a post-it note and she carries it with her in her backpack. When she starts to feel nervous, we repeat the mantra together. I liked that the book is broken up into manageable chapters that we could read and discuss together in our limited spare time. For the brainstorming parts, we would work together on coming up with solutions, and I would do the writing, the space was a bit limited for a 6 year olds handwriting. Additionally, I would love to see this in a spiral bound version, for ease of writing.

Granddaughter reads this with her mother most nights and it seems to be helping some.

These workbooks are so amazing for kids who need a little help getting through separation anxiety. Easy activities to understand.

This is an perfect book for kiddos with separation anxiety. My 6 year old had a really tough time with the transition into 1st grade. After many tears had been shed, from her and I, we spoke with a child psychologist who recommended this book. I can not say enough good things about it. I love that it is written to the child. My daughter made an instant connection with this book and could easily understand the message.

My son and I talk about this book often. It helped him get through the first few weeks of kindergarten!

The item is fine, it is as stated. However we used this as suggested by a therapist and my child kind of found this to feel like “more” book work after school all day. Frankly not really helpful for my 9 year old with anxiety. Maybe if you are clueless and need a guide this would work.

This is a resource that my school suggested for my child and I to use both being used at school and at home. Full of great steps on how to overcome separation anxiety with activities and stories

Recently lost my dear husband suddenly and bought this to help the young grandchildren with separation anxiety from grandad. They loved reading it and it helped.

I have used this a lot for kids with separation anxiety. It provided a nice guide to therapy, with a lovely metaphor of hot-air ballooning as a framework. I then expanded on each section using my own tools. Great for counsellors and parents.

Good read

Interactive which involves the child. Mostly suitable for children above the age of 4.