Helping Your Kids Cope with Divorce the Sandcastles Way
Product Type: Book
Product Price: $20.00
Manufacturer: Random House
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Description
Divorce is painful and confusing. Perhaps now more than ever, you want to give your child all the love, support, and guidance he or she needs, but everything seems harder and more complicated. Helping Your Kids Cope with Divorce the Sandcastles Way can help. Based on Gary Neuman's phenomenally successful Sandcastles program, which has helped more than fifty thousand children cope with divorce, this warm, empathetic guide shows you:
How to build a co-parenting relationship--even when you think you can't
When you or your child should see a therapist
Age-appropriate scripts for addressing sensitive issues
What to do when a parent moves away
How to stop fighting with your ex-spouse
How to navigate the emotional turmoil of custody and visitation
How to help your child deal with change
How to cope with kids' common fears about separation
How to introduce significant others into the family and help your child cope with a new stepfamily
More than a hundred pieces of artwork from children of divorce will help you appreciate how kids perceive the experience. Dozens of special activities and fun exercises will help you communicate and get closer to your child. This guide shows you that divorce need not be an inevitable blot on children's lives, but an opportunity for them to grow and strengthen the bonds with their parents.
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
Reviews
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-04-23
Summary: "Very helpful resource on divorce issues with children"
A practical and helpful resource for counselors and therapists working with children of divorce. Other helpful books on this topic include:
Creative Interventions for Children of Divorce
Dinosaurs Divorce
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-03-01
Summary: "Outstanding Program"
The Sandcastles program should be available at all public schools. Children of divorcing parents need to know they can learn to cope with the breakup. Having other children and trained counselors with whom to interact is key. By encouraging children to talk and artistically express themselves, they will be able to accept and deal with what is happening. I have recommended the Sandcastles program all over the United States. Charlotte Hardwick, Author of Win Your Child Custody War: Child Custody Help Source Book--A How-To System for People Serious About the Welfare of Their Child (12th Edition)
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-11-01
Summary: "Helping Kids Cope With Divorce"
Great service. This is a great book for parents who want to understand how children view divorce and help them to cope with changes brought about by divorce
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-10-16
Summary: "Helping Your Kids Cope with Divorce"
This book should be a must read for anyone going through divorce. You won't read in in one night, but it is really worth it.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-10-01
Summary: "Highly Recommended"
I highly recommed this book to parents going through divorce. This book covers the topic based on child development. I work as a pediatric nurse practitioner, and recommend this book to all my patients who are divorced or seperated.