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    When My Mom is Sad

    By Mary Watson Avery & William Beardslee


    Illustrations by Joan Margot Smith

    © Boston Children’s Hospital 2011. All Rights Reserved.


    INTRODUCTION

    When My Mom Is Sad is a story designed to help children deal with


    sadness in their parents. It began with the development of a preventive
    intervention for families with parental depression, Family Talk, which
    showed that family conversation and shared understanding about
    depression and resilience were both helpful and deeply valued by families.

    More directly, When My Mom Is Sad is part of our work at Family


    Connections, a program to empower teachers to be able to deal with
    parental depression and related adversities which combines an early
    developmental lens on children, knowledge about depression in families,
    and a focus on center-based early childhood education. The Tell Me A Story
    project was developed as part of Family Connections as a way to focus on
    how children experience and talk about feelings and thoughts and how
    children’s literature can encourage discussion of social-emotional themes.
    When My Mom Is Sad embodies our belief that breaking the silence can
    be very helpful to families.

    When My Mom Is Sad has been written to reflect the concerns and
    questions a preschooler might have, and is structured to present a
    supportive conversation between a child and parent, in which the mother
    shares some important, age-appropriate information about depression.
    The story concludes with a reassurance that action is being taken in order
    to respond to the mother and child’s needs, and therefore provides a
    responsive message of hope.

    We hope that When My Mom Is Sad will help teachers, parents and
    children who read it to have the kind of discussion that will help them to
    find hope for the future and resources with which to build resilience in
    their children.

    In the short papers for parents in the Family Connections materials, we


    deal more directly with depression, resilience, helping parents find the
    ability to cope, and the value of self-reflection for parents. We also cover
    similar themes in short papers for teachers.

    We hope over the coming year to use When My Mom Is Sad in classrooms
    with children and their parents and receive guidance from parents and
    teachers about how it can best be of help.

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    My mom is sad lots of da­­ys.

    3
    Sometimes it seems like my brother
    and I are in trouble a lot. It feels like
    she is mad at us when she yells.
    4
    Sometimes it feels worse when she is
    quiet. When she is quiet like that and it
    goes on and on…and even when we ask
    her stuff or are nice on purpose – she still
    doesn’t say anything, and doesn’t smile.
    5
    It makes my stomach hurt and after a
    while, I want to hide somewhere.

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    And I don’t know why she is crying.
    I think it is because I am a bad girl or
    because my brother is being too loud.

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    So I ask her, “Are you crying
    because I am such a bad girl?”

    8
    And then my mom looks at me
    and I feel like I am seeing all the
    way inside her eyes.
    9
    She tells me that I am not a bad girl.
    She says she is acting this way because
    she is depressed. She says depression
    is something she has – like when I had
    the flu and missed the Valentine’s Day
    party because I felt so yucky.
    10
    She says it wasn’t my fault I had the flu
    and it wasn’t her fault I had the flu.
    I just had it and I got better.
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    But I had to take care of myself to
    get better. My mom told me she is
    trying to get better too.
    12
    And then my mom does something I
    almost forgot she knew how to do. She
    smiles right at me. And I remember
    when she used to smile at me every
    day. It made my stomach ache go away.
    13
    I guess this means I am
    going to feel better too.

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    Copyright Children’s Hospital Boston, January 2010.

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