Getting Divorced? First Step. Break the news to your children gently. Doing so can avoid the need for extensive divorce counselling. This article presents twelve tips for informing your children of your divorce. Integrate these tips to manage your child’s expected feelings. Learn how to counsel your child effectively.
Single Parenting – 7 Parenting Mistakes To Avoid With Your Teenager
Children of divorced parents feel the effects of divorce at every age. But as a single parent, helping a teenager requires you to take extra care. This article highlights seven pitfalls to avoid when managing the effects of divorce on a teenaged child. Honesty, harmony, structure and understanding are the best policies.
Humanistic Parenting
The behavioral approach to divorce parenting and counseling is based on the premise that children’s behaviors can be shaped through modifying the consequences in their environment. This article presents a more effective approach to divorce parenting that takes into account a child’s dignity – Humanistic Parenting.
Ten Ways To Help Children Through Divorce
Parents wonder how they can help their children cope with divorce. Though there are no black or white answers, there are certain approaches parents are recommended to take in order to make this transition as easy on the children of divorce as possible. This article presents ten tips for helping children cope with divorce.
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 Handle the Effects of Divorce on Children
One effect of divorce is that children will often take the blame upon themselves. A subsequent effect is when a spouse enters into another relationship – an unsettling event if handled incorrectly. This article discusses how to handle these and other effects of divorce on your children, including changes in behavior.
Study Shows Ritalin Use Doubles in Children of Divorce: But the Question Remains ‘Why?’
Should Ritalin be prescribed as part of a child therapy program for children of divorce? So it would seem from a study reported in the Canadian Medical Association journal, where 6% of children of divorce were prescribed Ritalin, in comparison with a 3% norm. This article explores this controversial issue.
Children and Divorce Psychologist Tells It Like It Is
Children of divorced parents experience additional pain when one or both spouses act irrationally during divorce. This article features the advice of Lynne Namka, a Children and Divorce psychologist who has dealt with these cases. Common examples of poor behavior and important divorce coping mechanisms are presented.
How To Make Divorce Easier On Your Children
Children of Divorce hide their true feelings when their parents divorce. The effects of divorce on children, then, often remain hidden, thereby presenting a number of problems. This article explores this matter, offering recommendations for handling emotional effects of divorce & breaking the news of divorce to children.
Top 10 Divorce Myths
Many myths about divorce and separation have made the rounds. Should a couple consider a legal marriage separation or divorce completely? What are some of the beliefs that point to separation vs divorce? What are the beliefs about life after a divorce? This article presents 10 common myths about separation or divorce.
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