Archive for December, 2007
Raising Healthy, Well-Adjusted Children — Despite Divorce
Amy Sherman, LMHC is one of the contributors to Rosalind Sedacca’s new book, How Do I Tell the Kids about the Divorce? A Create-a-Storybook Guide to Preparing Your Children — with Love! Here she shares some of her wisdom based on her private practice and years of working with pre-teen and teen populations.
Parenting is a continual learning process, which is compounded when you are going through a divorce. Not only does it require an understanding of the child’s needs and the skills to meet those needs, but it requires additional special attention. Talking to your children about the divorce could be one of the most difficult Continue reading “Raising Healthy, Well-Adjusted Children — Despite Divorce” »
Parental Alienation – a Divorce Disaster Sure to Alienate Your Children
Parental Alienation – when one or both divorcing parents attempts to negatively influence their children about the other parent — is one of the most terrible outcomes of a divorce gone bad. It’s a difficult and complex subject, but the outcome is always the same. Children who are emotionally scarred.
When you mix two egos with dramatically differing perspectives, you’re bound to get an entanglement of emotions compounded by allegations, defensiveness and self-righteousness. Unfortunately, no one wins when parental alienation runs its course during and after a divorce. But it’s the children in particular who lose in a big way. Many of them are affected for life.
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