How to Help Your Children Before, During and After Your Divorce - Children And Divorce - What are your children saying when you are not present?
- "I feel like I'm an outsider. I hear my Mom cry at night. My Dad is angry. What about me?"
You love your children and want to protect them from pain. But divorce is inherently painful. Even parents whose divorce happened a long time ago may still observe sadness and turmoil in their children. But children are resilient. With the love, understanding and guidance of both parents, they can survive any family crisis without permanent damage and grow as human beings in the process. No matter where you are in the process, you must be prepared to create a Smart Divorce for their sake.
Smart Divorce, Raise Happy, Healthy Kids includes...
- What to do when your child comes to visit.
- What is Mediation and how can you benefit from this process?
- What is Collaborative Divorce? Benefits?
- Specific steps on how to make changes as a family together.
- Inexpensive activities and vacation ideas to help you bond and form a new family structure.
- For the parents who see their child(ren) on a part-time basis.
- Dating guidelines for you, the divorced parent.
- Daily parenting guidelines.
- As a single parent, what to do to take care of yourself.
- And much, much more . . .
- 6-step Grief to Discovery to Completion Process to help you and your children overcome the lingering effects of divorce.
- 5 steps to a positive approach to parenting with specific examples. . . all backed by research.
- 3 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.
- 11 ways to help your child express and release his / her feelings.