Archive for July, 2010

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

Men and Separation – Navigating the Future

A guide for men going through a
separation or divorce, or for those who are supporting a man who is
experiencing separation. PDF format.

Read more…Men and Separation – Navigating the Future — Relationships Australia

Encouraging Words for New Stepmothers

“Being a stepmother is like setting your hair on fire and then putting it out with a hammer!” Such description is what lead therapist and author, Jean McBride, M.S., LMFT, to write “Encouraging Words for New Stepmothers.”

Readers will glean sage advice and renewed hope for managing the new stepmother role from this portable paperback support system.

The 51 up-lifting essays in “Encouraging Words for New Stepmothers” contain a wealth of research-based information founded on real life experiences, for dealing with the challenges and complexities of stepparenting.

Written in a style reminiscent of sitting down to tea with a knowledgeable, caring friend, these reader-friendly essays offer a tonic for the soul for the stepmother and those who support her.

Read more…Stepfamily Australia: Stepmother: Encouraging Words for New Stepmothers