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Parents Forever: Impact of Divorce on Children Parent Handbook

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Session 1

Introduction

As parents, you begin your job the minute your children are born and your role continues for a lifetime. Unfortunately no one can totally prepare you for this role. Even individual children in the same family can act quite differently. Parenting education offers some answers, but other answers come only from living through situations and dealing with them as well as you can at the time. Parenting is a tough role but a very rewarding one in the long run.

This handbook offers some tools that can help you during a time of transition in your family. It also offers a lot of information that will help you both during these educational sessions and in the future. As parents, you both need to play a role in your children's lives; you both need to work together to let go of the past, focus on the future, and develop a new beginning for your children.

Contents

Purpose of Session 1
Stages of Grief and Loss for Children Going Through Divorce
Issues of Developmental Ages and Stages: Reactions/Helpful Parental Responses
Things Divorced Parents Say to Confuse and Undermine a Child's Love and Confidence
Are You Alienating Your Children from the Other Parent? Let Children Be Children
Ask Yourself: Am I Turning My Children into Adults?

Improving Communication

"I" Messages
Active Listening

Conclusion

Session 2

Introduction

The first half of this book examined the many impacts of divorce on children. The fact that children grieve is universal; what that grief looks like can be quite individual.

How can you help your children through this time? How can you rise to the challenge at a time when you yourself are hurting?

These are the questions addressed in this second half of this handbook, along with suggestions and information designed to help you help your children.

Contents

Purpose of Session 2
Children's Rights When Their Parents Divorce
Helping Children Through Divorce
Parenting Styles
Why Children Misbehave
The Range of Post-divorce Parenting Relationships
Parallel-parenting Business Principles
Sample Parallel-parent Plan
Your Parallel-parenting Worksheet

Conclusion

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