Keep open conflict and hostility to a minimum. Inform Significant Other Adults. Many teachers report diminished academic performance, deterioration in peer relationships and diminished ability to concentrate following the divorce. Few-individuals have as much potential to intervene more dramatically for good than a child's teacher. Grief moves along on its own time table.
Initial shock can last two minutes or two years.
Children need to have permission to grieve. Adjustment for children doesn't take a year, as with adults - it may take forever.