Good Parenting Through Your Divorce - How to Recognize, Encourage, and Respond to Your Child's Feelings and Help Them Get Through Your Divorce (Paperback)

Every year, over one million children have to endure the divorce of their parents. Through her involvement with the Kid's Turn program, author Mary Ellen Hannibal has discovered that the key to helping children cope with divorce is through their expressive selves, but listening and responding productively to kids is hard when parents are embroiled in one of the most difficult passages of their own lives. Using stories of actual kids in their everyday settings and the highly developed techniques of the Kid's Turn organization, Hannibal teaches parents how to recognize, cultivate, and respond to their child's feelings, thus helping the child through the parents' divorce. Much has been made of the negative effects of divorce on children's overall development and future success as mature adults, but Good Parenting Through Your Divorce proves that parents can develop the skills they need to make their children's transition a healthy and successful one.
-- Kid's Turn is a nationally recognized program based in San Francisco -- featured on ABC's 20/20 and NPR -- that has been giving workshops to parents and children undergoing divorce for over ten years
-- Children who live through divorce have a more difficult time finishing school, working productively, and establishing their own longlasting relationships
-- Addresses the emotional strategies for better co-parenting and gives practical guidance for sharing custody