5 Tips To Help Your Kids Deal With Your Divorce
Divorce leaves wounds and scars on children, but you can help in their healing if you are able to make their emotional and psychological needs a priority. In order to do this, you should distinguish your personal parental war, from the victimization which inevitably subjects your children.
Many parents do not bother to understand that every decision you make regarding your divorce affects the psycho-social well-being of their children in the present and future. In fact, the emotional scars are not only more difficult to see, they are also much more difficult to erase since they can have long-term effects.
Here are five tips to help your children overcome the negative effects of divorce.
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Categories: Health
Tags: Divorce, Family
Rosalind Sedacca, CDC is a Certified Divorce Coach, Divorce & Parenting Mentor and Founder of the Child-Centered Divorce Network for parents. She’s also the author of the internationally-acclaimed ebook, How Do I Tell the Kids about the Divorce? A Create-a-Storybook Guide to Preparing Your Children – with Love! This unique ebook doesn’t just tell you what to say, it provides age-appropriate, customizable templates that say it for you!
Rosalind provides telephone and Skype mentoring services on parenting skills during and after divorce. She also offers teleseminars, Group Coaching programs, a Co-Parenting Corse and a comprehensive Audio Coaching program for parents that can be downloaded around the world. Rosalind personally initiated International Child-Centered Divorce Month which is commemorated every January to remind parents, educators, divorce professionals and the media about the challenges faced everyday by children of divorce.
Rosalind is co-host of The Divorce View Talk Show and Podcast, an Expert Advisor at ParentalWisdom.com, a Contributing Expert for Divorce360.com and on the Panel of Experts for the National Association of Divorce for Women and Children. She is also an Expert Blogger for The Huffington Post, JenningsWire, KidzEdge Magazine, CBS News Eye on Parenting as well as Exceptional People Magazine. In 2008 Rosalind was named the National First Place Winner of the Victorious Woman Award. She also serves as a Distinguished Judge for the annual Mom’s Choice Awards. Her ChildCenteredDivorce.com blog was selected as the No. 1 blog on the Best Resources for Divorced Parents and Separated Families list.
Rosalind also has co-authored an 8-hr and 12-hr Online Anger Management Program for high conflict families. Learn more at www.AngerConflictPrograms.com.
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7 Comments
These are some great tips, and I appreciate your advice to let your children know that the divorce is not their fault. My husband and I are going to be divorcing soon, and I want to make sure our kids are OK. I’ll definitely make sure they know that this isn’t their fault at all so they don’t have to carry that weight. Thanks for the great post!
Thank you for your comment Lillian. It is very important to understand it is not a normal situation for them. They do suffer eventhough sometimes adults cannot see it. Soon we’ll have another post related to divorce because there have been some requests. Take care.
I would like to use the image you have on the page here (child hanging in the middle of parents) for a PowerPoint presentation on divorce. Would that be alright? I would not be disseminating it.
Thanks so much,
Justin
Hello, I’d ask you to show the reference to the article and website, so we can also get more visits and more people can benefit from all the information.
Thank you for asking,
Gonzalo
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