My Parent is in Prison Social Story
- Grades
- Not Grade Specific
- Pages
- 61
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Special Education Needs (SEN), Social Skills, Social Emotional Learning (SEL)
- Topic
- Parent in prison, Family change
- Resource types
- Activities
- Preparation
- Print ready
Product description
From the author
My Parent is in Prison Social Story uses illustrated, first-person sentences to discuss a parent’s imprisonment, difficult feelings and possible ways to stay connected. It reassures the child that the situation is not their fault.
Four fifteen-page stories provide dad and mom/mum versions in American and British spelling, plus a separate credit page. Choose a version with the caregiver and adapt discussion to the child’s circumstances. Pages can be laminated and bound for repeated individual or small-group reading.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Name feelings raised by the story, including anger and sadness.
Discuss the story’s reassurance that the imprisonment is not the child’s fault.
Identify a trusted adult to approach about unkind comments.
Teaching tips
Choose the parent and spelling version with the caregiver before reading.
Review the story’s explanations and contact statements against the child’s circumstances; do not promise visits or phone calls.
Pause to let the child name feelings and ask questions.
Skills covered
Emotional literacy — the story names anger and sadness in first person and explicitly validates them ('This is OK').
Coping strategies — the child rehearses concrete ways to stay connected: talking on the phone, writing letters, drawing pictures, and visiting.
Helping at home — the story models contributing chores while the remaining parent is busier than normal.
Good to know
Questions teachers ask about this resource
How do the four story versions differ?
The text is the same story told four ways: with dad or with mom as the imprisoned parent, and in American or British spelling (mom/mum). Choose the one that matches the individual child's family and region.
What emotional ground does the story cover?
It validates anger ('I feel a little bit angry with my dad. This is OK.') and sadness, prepares the child for unkind comments from others, and closes each version with the two core reassurances: the imprisonment is not the child's fault, and the parent loves them very much.
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Concepts & topics
Core concepts
Core concepts
Parental incarceration
Social story
Feelings and coping
Family change
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