When a book might help
Sharing stories about various situations can put a child’s mind at ease and make transitions and new experiences easier to cope with and more understandable.
Where there is a ‘see also’ reference, it means there is more information under a related topic. If a word is in italics, and it says ‘see', it means there is no entry under the first issue listed, but you should try the one it refers to.
A
- Absent fathers
- ADHD see Hyperactivity
- Adoption and Fostering
- Allergies see also Food allergy
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Asthma
- Au Pair see Childminders
- Autistic spectrum
B
- Babysitters
- Bath time
- Bedtime problems see also Fears and Phobias, Worries
- Bedwetting
- Behaviour see Social skills
- Birth see also New baby
- Bullying see also Prejudice
D
- Death
- Dentist see also Teeth
- Diabetes
- Disability see also under specific impairments
- Divorce and Separation see also Step families
- Doctor see also Hospital, Illness
- Domestic violence
- Down's syndrome see also Disability
- Dummies
- Dyslexia see also Learning difficulties
F
- Fears and Phobias see also Bedtime problems, Worries
- Feelings see also Emotions
- Food allergy
- Fostering see Adoption and Fostering
- Friends see also Shyness
G
Glasses see SightJ
K
L
Leukaemia see Cancer and LeukaemiaO
Q
S
- Safety see also Road safety, Strangers
- School
- Separation see Divorce
- Sharing
- Shyness
- Sight
- Social skills
- Speech and Language
- Spina bifida
- Step families see also Divorce and Separation
- Strangers see also Safety
- Suncare
- Swimming