Divorce Resources

Telling your children about divorce

Six professional Therapists share their expertise with you!

That’s right. Because this is such an important message, not one or two, but six professional therapists, experienced with divorce and mediation, contribute their considerable expertise to this guidebook. Their insight, advice, commentary and support add significantly to the value of How Do I Tell the Kids about the Divorce? – making it a resource you can turn to again and again in the days, weeks, months … and even years ahead.

Psychotherapists, counselors, divorce attorneys and other professionals in the field endorse and support

How Do I Tell the Kids about the Divorce?

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Helping Your Kids Cope with Divorce

Kids tend to blame themselves when parents divorce. The Sandcastles workshop–now mandatory in over a dozen counties throughout the United States–is a half-day group session for children of divorce between the ages of 6 and 17. This intensive workshop helps kids open up and deal with their feelings through drawings, games, poetry, role playing, and other activities. Helping Your Kids Cope with Divorce details many of the workshop exercises, all designed to increase communication, understanding, and togetherness between parents and kids. The book is also packed full of suggestions on everything from the best way to break the divorce news to a child (it differs according to age group) to facing the holidays, visitation, custody arrangements, anger, discipline, co-parenting, single parenting, overcompensation, sorrow, custody fights, and much more.

Author Gary Neuman never patronizes or preaches, and although he is technically a child advocate, he proves himself to be an advocate of every member of the divorcing family. Neuman takes a hands-on approach and believes that children need not be permanently scarred by divorce–that with work and time, divorce can actually become a positive force for change. A powerful tool for protecting children caught amid parental struggles, Helping Your Kids Cope with Divorce should be required reading in all divorcing families. –Ericka Lutz

Read more…Good Parenting Magazine: Parenting: Helping Your Kids Cope with Divorce the Sandcastles Way

Divorced Dads Survival Guide

If you are one of the 1% of men who actually believe they can navigate the waters of divorce with simple and effective adult conversation with your (soon to be) ex, this site is not for you. In fact, call a mediator immediately and sit down and reach an understanding as soon as possible.

However, if you are among the remaining 99%, please listen carefully because…

…you are about to engage in the fight of your life…

No, you are not asking for it. You may not even want it. But, it is part of your new reality and a very real part of the process you are about to enter.

With just the slightest twist and turn of events in a relationship, a happy marriage can crumble to an ugly, nasty divorce in seconds flat. And, don’t think it can’t happen to you because it can and will…just like it happens to normal ‘nice guys’ every day of the week…every month of the year. History does repeat itself in matters of marriage and divorce.

Read more…Divorced Dads Survival Guide men Only – Wheretofindpedia