❤️ Sovelo Stories · Feelings
My Favorite Thing Broke
Something I love broke, and my feelings are big.. Read it together, at your pace. Every page is written in your child's voice.
1. Sometimes a favorite thing breaks. A toy, a mug, a special model I built.
2. My feelings might be huge. Sad and angry can come at the same time. Big feelings about special things make sense.
A dropping-stomach feeling, hot eyes, maybe tears.
3. Crying about a broken thing is okay. It was important to me. Important things deserve big feelings.
4. When I am ready, I have choices.
hold the pieces gently take a break before deciding anything take a photo so I remember it ask a grown-up to help me fix it
5. I can ask a grown-up about fixing it.
6. Fixed or not, the story of my favorite thing stays mine. The big feeling shrinks a little each day, and my memory of it does not break.
✦ Practice this story interactively — free in the Sovelo app
In the app, your child can choose what happens next, rehearse lines out loud with Spark, and try different endings — including hearing a kind "no" and being celebrated for respecting it. Parents can also create fully personalized stories.
← All 210 free stories
Sovelo Stories are original social narratives, written for neurodivergent kids and reviewed against strict guardrails: no eye-contact training, no masking, no mind-reading — and "no" is always a complete answer. Evidence-informed preparation, not a treatment. © Ezra Brown.