Some Mornings Feel Heavy: A Little Signals Story for Children Who Find Going to School Hard

Description

Some mornings the heaviness arrives before the shoes are on. Nothing has gone wrong yet. The child cannot explain it and the grown-up cannot argue with it.

Some Mornings Feel Heavy is a story for those mornings. It does not tell a child that school will be fine, because that is not the reassurance they are asking for. Instead it names the weight, shows that it is a thing bodies do rather than a thing that is wrong with them, and stays alongside it until it lifts a little.

Gentle and unhurried, it gives children a way of describing something they usually only communicate by refusing to move — and gives adults something to read together instead of negotiating.

For the children who find the school gate difficult.

Part of Little Signals — gentle stories about what bodies do when feelings get big. For children aged 4–8.