Dad's Green Soldiers: 6

Dad came home. Some things came home with him.Dad was deployed, which his son thinks means he had to fight. Now he doesn't go outside. When the TV is too loud, he ducks. The only time he seems calm is at the art table, moving a handful of little green soldiers around. They're his son's toys. His son lets him use them.Then one night a blanket knocks the soldiers to the floor, and the next morning the boy finds his father crying. What Dad says about those green men, and the men who didn't come home, opens the door to help.Dad's Green Soldiers is the sixth book in the Dad's Mental Health series, picture books that give children plain words for what a parent is going through. Each book names the condition, shows what getting help looks like, and ends with a father and son still together. A short note for grown-ups explains PTSD, what it looks like at home, and where treatment comes from.For reading together, ages 4 to 8.