Two Homes Filled with Love: A Story about Divorce and Separation: 37 (My Dragon Books)

Helped with difficult family situation

I love the whole series

I like that this book addresses the topic directly in touching briefly in what happened (a divorce or break up) but majorly focuses on what the kid of these two homes may be experiencing and how to help them. Which I think is great, because sometimes it can be as simple as “What happened?” and then “How can I help?”I think this book can be helpful to a kid who’s friend is going through this and can gain insight on having compassion and grace for this situation. Plus, even for a kid who are themselves experiencing a situation of having two homes could find some ideas and strategies of what to do next and how to look for positives in their situation that understandably is painful & confusing. They would of course need time to process the change, but I like to believe this book would offer them some ideas too.I am an instructional assistant (assist teacher by assisting students with learning) that works in a special day classroom with Special Ed students. Although the pandemic is happening and online learning is in full swing this first school week, I have already encountered a new student who shared that they live in “two homes” like this book mentions. So as the year progresses, this book may offer me ideas in what to suggest to that student or even to the other students if they ask how to help.Anyway, sweet book that is very well focused on affirming the child is loved and on positive things that a friend could do to help support. Wonderful topic to address and enlighten for kids.

Can't tell you how much this book has meant to my 3 yo as my husband and I are newly separated. he said he wished he had a pink dragon friend. The only warning I would give is that there is one page that has a bubble in the imagery that has the words separation/divorce and one other word, can't remember. If you are like us and not choosing to introduce those words at this time, just know they are there, but not part of the text, so we just choose not to read them.

this book is very basic and focuses on the material world between the houses, no information about emotions.

It is really well written. It definitely made it easier to explain to them what was happening. They understood it better because of the book also because we could refer to it.