Helping A Child Cope With Divorce
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Informative ebook specifically designed to help you help your child deal with the trauma of your divorce. Included in the chapters are the following3 specific steps for engaging the other parent in a
co-parenting process for your children's sake.
12 ideas for building a peaceful co-parenting future.
Specific steps on how to make changes as a family together.
6-step Grief to Discovery to Completion Process to help you and your children overcome the lingering effects of divorce.
As a single parent, what to do to take care of yourself.
11 ways to help your child express and release his / her feelings.
5 steps to a positive approach to parenting with specific examples. . . all backed by research.
Daily parenting guidelines.
Inexpensive activities and vacation ideas to help you bond and form a new family structure.
What to do when your child comes to visit.
For the parents who see their child(ren) on a part-time basis.
Dating guidelines for you, the divorced parent.
What is Mediation and how can you benefit from this process?
What is Collaborative Divorce? Benefits?
And much, much more . . .
Children and Divorce - Smart Divorce offers you the opportunity to try on new beliefs, put into place new tools, ideas and concepts to deal with your divorce experience.
Books for Children Facing Divorce in the Family
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Mom's House, Dad's House: Making Two Homes for Your Child
According to the Stepfamily Association of America, 60 percent of all families are breaking up, and custody and visitation issues loom large in the lives of many parents. Isolina Ricci's Mom's House, Dad's House guides separated, divorced, and remarried parents through the hassles and confusions of setting up a strong, working relationship with the ex-spouse in order to make two loving homes for the kids. This expanded and revised edition (the book was originally published in 1980) includes emotional and legal tools, as well as many reference materials and resources. As one parent said of the first edition, "This book is my friend
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Helping Your Kids Cope with Divorce the Sandcastles Way
Kids tend to blame themselves when parents divorce. The Sandcastles workshop--now mandatory in over a dozen counties throughout the United States--is a half-day group session for children of divorce between the ages of 6 and 17. This intensive workshop helps kids open up and deal with their feelings through drawings, games, poetry, role playing, and other activities. Helping Your Kids Cope with Divorce details many of the workshop exercises, all designed to increase communication, understanding, and togetherness between parents and kids. The book is also packed full of suggestions on everything from the best way to break the divorce news to a child (it differs according to age group) to facing the holidays, visitation, custody arrangements, anger, discipline, co-parenting, single parenting, overcompensation, sorrow, custody fights, and much more.
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Dinosaurs Divorce
Grade 1-3 Children familiar with the Browns' Dinosaurs Beware (Atlantic, 1983) and Marc Brown's "Arthur" books (Atlantic) will delight in this new foray into an area of deep concern for the youngest readers. Sympathetic to the full range of feelings that divorce produces, the authors use evocative cartoon dinosaur characters to convey their message. Chapters address such concerns as why parents divorce, what will happen to "me," where will holidays be celebrated, living in two homes, etc. Expressively illustrated with accompanying succinct text, this upbeat, straightforward treatment of a potentially confusing, traumatic childhood experience is comprehensive. Prediction: this will become a real "security blanket" for those young readers in need
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Making Divorce Easier on Your Child: 50 Effective Ways to Help Children Adjust
From the bestselling authors of Parenting the Strong-Willed Child, expert strategies and action steps for divorcing parents
While there are many trade books on children and divorce, most tend to be filled with extensive discussions of the psychological impact on children, with little effective advice. You want immediate answers and quick access to expert strategies you can use to help your kids today and in the future. Making Divorce Easier on Your Child arms you with 50 effective strategies and action steps for helping your kids cope with divorce, packaged in a convenient, quick-bite format. It is based on the authors' years of clinical experience dealing with the children of divorce, as well as their extensive research into the causes and cures of divorce-related emotional problems.
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Amazon Price: $10.85 (as of 12/25/2009)
What in the World Do You Do When Your Parents Divorce? A Survival Guide for Kids
This companion to the Juggling Act parent's book is specially aimed at kids ages 7-12. It explains divorce, new living arrangements, and other basics to help children understand what's happening in their lives. With honesty and simplicity, the authors help kids realize that divorce isn't their fault, strong emotions are okay, and families can survive difficult changes. Written to and for kids, this book is also recommended for parents, educators, counselors, and youth workers.
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Amazon Price: $9.99 (as of 12/25/2009)
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