description: Millions of American children are living with divorced or separated parents. Those who maintain a close relationship with both mother and father--despite the potential conflicts involved-stand the best chance of maturing into healthy, well-adjusted adults. In "Don't Divorce Your Children," Dr. Jenny Lewis and Dr. Bill Sammons offer advice on how to prevent the painful physical and emotional distancing that so often occurs between divorced parents and their children. Appreciating how your children's experiences are different from your own is the key to successfully guiding them through this crisis. "Don't Divorce Your Children" offers diary entries from both parents and children to illustrate that understanding your child's point of view is an essential step in dealing with divorce. Whether you are the residential or non-residential parent, recently separated or long-divorced, or the parent of a toddler or a teen, this book will help you: Look at your divorce through your child's eyes Listen to your child's point of view Learn to create solutions that really work--together The unique blend of real-life stories and expert advice makes "Don't Divorce Your Children" an invaluable tool, not only for parents but for anyone who has the best interests of children at heart. "With a refreshing lack of rigidity and an abundance of practical, smart advice, Doctors Lewis and Sammons have delivered what the piles of other divorce books haven't: insight into how children really approach the breakup of the family and strategies for making the process not only easier on everyone but healthier, too." -- Marianne Szegedy-Maszak, single parenting columnist MSNBC.com "I give it my unqualified endorsement.It is chock-full of useful information to help parents minimize the damage of divorce on their children." -- David M. Kaplan, PhD, President International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors Jenny Lewis and Bill Sammons are pediatricians practicing in Boston, Massachusetts. For twenty years they have offered their parents a unique combination of medical expertise and the tools to help families work together to find solutions to the everyday problems of life.
language: English
title: Don't Divorce Your Children : Protecting Their Rights and Your Happiness
titlecomplete: Don't Divorce Your Children : Protecting Their Rights and Your Happiness
genres: Parenting
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Contemporary Books