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Grandparents’ Role During Divorce

Helping Grandkids Cope When Their Parents Split
Your son or daughter is getting divorced. Your first or second thought has to do with those precious grandchildren. How to support them and maintain your relationship?
Up until grandparents get the news their adult child’s marriage is breaking up, their role was to make the grandchildren happy, to […]

The Law and Grandparents Rights

Grandparents can often be the forgotten victims of the breakdown of their children’s marriage or long-term relationship.Often they lose contact with children involved as the estranged partner moves to a new area or strained relationships with ex-partners make contact difficult. This denies both the grandparent the joy of watching the children grow up and means […]

Banned From Seeing Our Grandchildren After the Divorce

The divorce rate is rising and the role of grandparents has become crucial to the well-being of their grandchildren.
We’re banned from seeing our grandchildren - and the pain is tearing us apart
Like most grandparents, Barbara Fisher and her husband Mike revelled in the opportunity to experience childhood again through the eyes of their two grandchildren, […]

School Drop-Out Rates Rise for Children of Divorce, Claims Study

Keith Geren, Canwest News Service
April 10, 2009
Parents thinking about getting divorced, especially for the second or third
time, should consider the impact of that decision on their children’s
schooling, new research from University of Alberta suggests.
The groundbreaking study — believed to the first in Canada to look at the
long-term impacts of household upheaval on academic success — […]

Nourish your Child with the Gift of Listening

The best therapy that a divorced parent can give a child of divorce is simply listening. Parent child interactive therapy is all about listening, communicating, giving & taking.
This article makes the case for nourishing a child through listening. Children exhibit poor behavior when they are not being given attention. 

How to Make a Difference for a Child of Divorce Even as a Bystander

While many children suffering from parental divorce find themselves enrolled in a divorce therapy for children program, there is more that can be done  for them other than therapy games.
This article offers ten ideas for helping children of divorce, including listening & reading with them. Even going for an ice cream. 

Parents’ Unexpected Divorce Can Destabilize New College Student’s Life

Children of divorced parents may feel the effects of divorce at every age. Many divorcing parents have the false impression that children in college are immune to the effects of divorce.
This article states that parental divorce can destabilize the lives of their college children as well. Later-in-life divorce is unexpected. 

Divorce Parenting and Stress

Anyone who has experienced divorce can tell you first hand it is one of the most stressful events you will ever face. That is especially true for those who are also parents. The day to day challenges of parenting are significant enough without divorce and the challenges that come with attempting to recover from such […]

Divorce Can Destroy Family If Not Careful

Few things are as tragic or traumatic as a divorce - especially for any school-aged children who may be involved. To maintain trust when getting a divorce with children, it is recommended that you seek out divorce mediation services.
This article places the emphasis on maintaining a trust between parents and children. 

25 Tips for Parents Whose Children are Getting a Divorce

Don’t become personally involved in your child’s divorce, unless grandparent custody is applicable, or when grandparent visitation rights is threatened.
This article strongly advises against involvement, offering 25 tips for avoiding involvement, including hiding money and assets or creating new “family” traditions. 

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  "This is a wonderful tool for parents and children as well as for therapists. Creative, imaginative and lots of fun! A must-have for families going through divorce!
  
  ~ Cloe Madanes, author of Strategic Family Therapy

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  Thank you again. My son has ADHD and has a very hard time talking and voicing how he feels. This game is wonderful.
  
  ~ Jessica (contact information available)

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  By the end of the game, the child is empowered, helped to understand the parents motivations and given hope for the future and his/her own ability to develop loving relationships despite personal experience.
  
  ~ Judy Siegel-Itzkovich, Reporter for The Jerusalem Post
  
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