What Happens When Parents Get Divorced?: Explain what divorce is and how it affects a kid’s day-to-day life (What About Me? Books)

“A unique and wonderful tool.” — Katherine S.
“An adorable book that helps make a difficult time easier for kids to understand. I highly recommend this book for any family with young kids going through a divorce.” — R. Richards
“Excellent book for kids going through a difficult time with divorce. Cute illustrations and language small children can understand. Highly recommend! Also the magnet calendar available is brilliant.” — Sarah E.

Down-to-earth, practical, and full of friendly real-world help for kids, What Happens When Parents Get Divorced? is a unique book for families transitioning to two households. Unlike other books, What Happens When Parents Get Divorced? focuses on how divorce and shared parenting will affect a child’s life and uses a visual calendar kids can truly understand.
Also available in Spanish: ¿Qué Pasa Cuando Los Padres se Divorcian?
Kids and grown-ups have lots of fears, but for many of us, the “unknown” edges out pretty much everything else. When something big like a divorce or separation happens in a child’s life, they often feel like everything they know is thrown into chaos. Kids (like the rest of us) handle change best if they know what to expect, both on a day-to-day basis and long-term. What Happens When Parents Get Divorced? makes sense of marital separation and creates a visual routine that helps kids feel safe.

Join Mia and her stuffed giraffe Stuart as they explain what separation and divorce is and how it affects a kid’s day-to-day life. Using an illustrated calendar to explain how divorce affects a child’s daily routine, What Happens When Parents Get Divorced? focuses on the child’s experience and removes the unknowns from the equation. This book takes the proven therapy technique of using a custody calendar and brings it to book form, helping parents show kids exactly what to expect.

“Most of the time we do the same things in the mornings. We wake up. We eat breakfast. (I like apples. Stuart only eats bugs.) . . . When something big changes, what we do each day can change too. Stuart wants to know what happens to our days when our parents get divorced.”

By creating a routine that kids can see and understand, parents can restore a sense of safety and predictability in their kids’ lives, helping them to be more resilient in the face of life’s inevitable challenges. What Happens When Parents Get Divorced? is the perfect book for families that want to reduce their kids’ anxiety surrounding divorce and separation. It aims to empower kids with knowledge, which is proven to help kids through traumatic situations.

Aimed at families with kids ages 4 to 10, this method of teaching is based on decades of solid science about how kids learn and cope with the major day-to-day changes that result from life’s toughest stuff.

Meet Mia and Stuart
With her messy pigtails and sunny personality, Mia brings a bit of fun to books about hard topics. Explaining life’s toughest stuff to her toy giraffe, Stuart, Mia is the star of the What About Me? book series, where she’s able to help kids feel safe by explaining exactly what they can expect when faced with big changes.

About the Author
Sara Olsher is the founder of Mighty + Bright, which helps families through hard things like divorce, cancer, and other major changes using visual magnetic calendars and daily charts. Based on decades of research about emotional intelligence and how to talk to kids so they actually learn, Mighty + Bright’s calendars have helped hundreds of families through some of the hardest times in their lives.