The Truth About Children and Divorce: Dealing with the Emotions So You and Your Children Can Thrive
- ISBN13: 9780452287167
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Nationally recognized expert Robert Emery applies his twenty-five years of experience as a researcher, therapist, and mediator to offer parents a new road map to divorce. Dr. Emery shows how our powerful emotions and the way we handle them shape how we divorce—and whether our children suffer or thrive in the long run. His message is hopeful, yet realistic—divorce is invariably painful, but parents can help promote their children’s resilience. With compassion and authority, Dr. Emery explains:
• Why it is so hard to really make divorce work
• How anger and fighting can keep people from really separating
• Why legal matters should be one of the last tasks
• Why parental love—and limit setting—can be the best “therapy” for kids
• How to talk to children, create workable parenting schedules, and more
The Truth About Children and Divorce: Dealing with the Emotions So You and Your Children Can Thrive
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This book is a very one-sided view of divorce with children. It paints a picture of all “good” things but not at all realistic outcomes of most divorces.
Rating: 1 / 5
The Truth About Children and Divorce: Dealing with the Emotions So You and Your Children Can Thrive
This book is part of our mediation client library. We share it not only with clients but also with mediators in training who need to learn more about creating developmentally sound parenting plans, dealing with issues which come up as parents learn to separate the parenting relationship from the (now defunct) romantic relationship, and how to help parents redefine their families without falling apart. His section on handling your emotions as a divorcing parent, setting boundaries, and how to behave around your children is something I wish all of our clients would read. It’s written in a very engaging way and is very easy to read.
Rating: 5 / 5
The Truth About Children and Divorce: Dealing with the Emotions So You and Your Children Can Thrive
This book helps put into solid perspective what you can at least have some heavy influence over in a divorce situation – your kids’ understanding of the divorce and their capacity for coping based on how the parents manage themselves and the expectations of their children throughout the whole process. I read this two years ago during a very tumultuous time and felt better prepared to talk to my (then) 7 year old son about what was happening in our lives. It is vital that both parents read this book and get on the same page with a communication strategy for the kids. The author writes in a refreshingly straightforward manner not found in most books dealing with the trauma of separation and divorce. He helps you move beyond the fear and get to a place of practical thinking. Highly recommended if you’re even thinking of going down the road of separation/divorce.
Rating: 4 / 5
The Truth About Children and Divorce: Dealing with the Emotions So You and Your Children Can Thrive
Being a Maryland Trial Lawyer, my practice is mostly domestic and divorce law. Dr. Emery’s book, The Truth about Children and Divorce, is a down to earth book telling both parents and their children how to deal with the emotions of separation and divorce. I highly recommend this book.
Rating: 4 / 5
The Truth About Children and Divorce: Dealing with the Emotions So You and Your Children Can Thrive
This was helpful and provided direction. It provided very straight forward advice during a shaky time. Recommend it.
Rating: 4 / 5
The Truth About Children and Divorce: Dealing with the Emotions So You and Your Children Can Thrive