Children & Spirits

A child tells you there is someone in the room.

They describe a person you cannot see. They talk about a deceased relative as though that person were present. They notice a shadow, a light, a voice, or a presence—sometimes with curiosity, sometimes with comfort, and sometimes with fear.

For a parent, the hardest part may not be deciding what happened.

It may be deciding how to respond.

That is where Children & Spirits begins.

Dr. Athena Drewes has spent years helping parents and caregivers navigate children’s psychic, spiritual, and exceptional experiences with compassion rather than unnecessary fear or judgment. Through Perceptive Children, she has provided education and support to families trying to understand exactly these kinds of reports.

This workbook turns that experience into something parents can actually use.

Rather than instructing you to either believe or disbelieve your child, it shows you how to stay matter-of-fact, let your child describe what they experienced in their own words, and pay attention to whether the experience feels comforting, neutral, confusing, or frightening.

You’ll explore how reported spirit contact may appear at different ages, how imaginary companions and spirit experiences may overlap in a child’s description, and why open questions are more useful than supplying a label.

The workbook also gives you practical tools for the moments parents often struggle with most: an experience journal, pattern tracker, first-conversation worksheet, nighttime comfort plan, parent response plan, and Dr. Athena’s white-light visualization exercise for helping a child develop a sense of calm, boundary, and safety.

This is not a workbook about turning your child’s experience into a performance or proving that spirits exist.

It is about something much more useful:

Helping your child know they can tell you what they are experiencing—and that you will listen.