Welcome Back, Pluto

WELCOME BACK, PLUTO is an 83-minute educational program that teaches children, teens, and parents how to preserve good relationships in situations that threaten to undermine love and respect.

Entertaining, humorous, and packed with valuable advice, the program shows how alienation originates and why both parents and the children should work to prevent and overcome disrupted relationships.

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DVD Cover of the film Welcome Back, Pluto: Understanding, Preventing, and Overcoming Parental Alienation

What you’ll learn

Key takeaways—kept clear, practical, and family-friendly.

What alienation looks like (and why it happens)

A plain-language explanation of how loyalty conflicts and subtle pressures can distort a child’s view of a parent, and how estrangement can take hold over time.

How children can avoid taking sides

Helps children and teens recognize “pulls” toward one parent, stay grounded, and protect their right to care about both parents.

How parents can reduce tension and repair ruptures

Practical guidance for both parents—including common mistakes that unintentionally deepen conflict—and ways to support reconnection without escalating.

How relationships can be rebuilt

Encourages empathy for rejected parents, clearer understanding of the favored parent’s perspective, and motivation for children (and adults) to restore healthy family ties.

Chapters include

  • What is alienation?
  • Understanding alienated children
  • Mistakes favored parents make
  • Understanding favored parents
  • The plight of rejected parents
  • Tips for parents
  • Tips for kids

Who this is for

Common audiences who use Welcome Back, Pluto™ as a practical resource.

Parents Looking for clear, constructive ways to support children when parents live apart.
Children & teens Who feel caught in the middle and want a safer, clearer way to relate to both parents.
Young adults Who want another perspective on how alienation developed and how reconnection may be possible.
Therapists, counselors & educators Using a structured, accessible resource to support families at risk of relationship rupture.

Note: This resource is educational and not a substitute for psychotherapy, diagnosis, or clinical treatment.

Trailer

A short preview of Welcome Back, Pluto™.

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What viewers say

Selected comments from people who watched the program.

“After watching Pluto, almost a dozen students have contacted their fathers, asking to renew and rebuild their relationships.”

—Dr. Linda Nielsen, Professor of Education

“If I had seen this a year ago, I would have realized immediately what was going on and stopped it.”

—17 year-old

“Now my son is saying that I’m his father after all this time of denying me. I can’t tell you how huge that is.”

—Divorced father of two boys

About the Title: Why Pluto?

For 76 years Pluto was part of our family of planets. Then, one day in 2006, astronomers decided that Pluto was not worthy of being considered a planet. The word “plutoed” has come to mean “to be demoted or devalued.”

I thought Pluto was an apt symbol for alienated parents who have been demoted by their children. It also symbolizes the emotional and physical distance between alienated children and the family they reject. For children who have cast a parent out of their lives, or are thinking about doing so, or one of their parents thinks it would be okay to reject the other parent, this program gives children another, healthier, perspective. Welcome Back, Pluto can help children recover, and keep, the family they deserve.