For those of you that have had to deal with a vacation, what types of vacation topics did you cover or in hindsight would have to try to elevate separation anxiety and stresses?

Things I've seen and read about have been:
- transitional objects
- vacation time communications

For those that used these did either actually help? Did you bring them up or did T?

And yes, I know how *** (all kinds of judgment words) this sounds so please I don't need to hear about just growing up and dealing with it. I can do that, it is about trying to find a better way.