Two Homes

"Two Homes" was on my Amazon wish list for a while, and now that my son is about to start overnights with his father, I bought this book. "Two Homes" takes a positive, sensitive approach to helping children (and parents) frame a time of transition, which can disrupt even the most emotionally regulated children, in a positive (but not Pollyanna-ish) light. It is so important for kids to know that they are deeply loved in both homes. Thiis book assures them of that in simple terms even very young children can comprehend. Children can often feel like they have no home rather than two homes, so I think it's important to reinforce their place in each household, which this book does.

I bought this when I first separated and my kids were 4 and 2. They are now 9 and 7 and they still enjoy it, representation is real.

Such a cute book for a toddler who has two homes! It has short simple sentences to maintain a toddlers attention. Love the message that they are loved whether they’re at dads or moms house!

I was extremely unhappy with the number of books available for children on this subject. I realize it is difficult to convey such a complex subject in simple terms that children can understand; however, that I why I'm looking for a book on this. If it were so simple, why would I need a book to help explain it? Anyway... this does a nice job and in a non-evasive way to expaining the situation that my child faces. He's 4 and totally incapable to comprehending the situation, but he does relate to a couple of the examples put forth in this book (eg two homes, two rooms, etc). Overall, i'd buy this book even if there were a plethera of books available. I'd recommend it for a child(ren) a little older (maybe 5-10). it is well written and overall a very good book.

With a friend going through divorce this book has been helpful for the children to see the new reality of a home with mom and a home with dad. No judgement in this book. At all. Just pictures and text showing 2 parents that love their kids, each having a different house and life for their kids.This book has helped and will continue to help a small person feel that there is a place for them that includes both parents, 2 people that will be there to take care of them and love them.

I love that this book keeps it very simple and straight forward. Mom lives here, Dad lives there; I have two houses, two kitchens, two bedrooms, etc.It is all presented like this is typical and normal, which is great for preparing my toddler for a divorce with mom and dad living in separate houses. It was hard to find books that involved both mom and dad that didn't have one parent as a just the weekends parent. I really appreciate this book!

I bought this book to read with my 3yr old daughter who is very intelligent. I thought that she'd figure out that I had a bit of an agenda with this book but she didn't feel weird about it at all! She was so excited when Alex in the book says, "Daddy lives here and sometimes I'm with Daddy. Mommy lives there and sometimes I'm with Mommy so I have two homes!" Her face lit up and she looked at me with a smile and said, "I have two homes too!" The first night she had me read it to her twice. Now she wants to read it every single night and has it memorized and "reads" it to me. I think she is so excited about this book because she really identifies with the boy in the story and it is very simple. Some of the other divorce related books I looked at got WAY too complicated...step-parents and siblings and such. This is a great book if you are newly divorced or have very small children and don't want to get into the details or side issues. I love this book and glad it makes my daughter feel good and understand her situation a little bit more.

How do you tell your five year old that you’re getting a divorce and she’s going to have two homes? You don’t... you avoid talking about it like a mature, brave and responsible adult you are ... you buy this book and then she brings it up while you read it.Ya, so I could not bring myself to tell my 5-year-old about divorcing. It was a huge white elephant in the room. And then we got this book. And the book helped us start the conversation. She talked about what things she’d have in what home, how she felt about having two homes. It just took something overwhelming and scary and made it a little less so.