Product Description
Divorce is painful and confusing. Perhaps now more than ever, you want to give your child all the love, support, and guidance he or she needs, but everything seems harder and more complicated. Helping Your Kids Cope with Divorce the Sandcastles Way can help. Based on Gary Neuman's phenomenally successful Sandcastles program, which has helped more than fifty thousand children cope with divorce, this warm, empathetic guide shows you: How to build a co-parenting relationship--even when you think you can't When you or your child should see a therapist Age-appropriate scripts for addressing sensitive issues What to do when a parent moves away How to stop fighting with your ex-spouse How to navigate the emotional turmoil of custody and visitation How to help your child deal with change How to cope with kids' common fears about separation How to introduce significant others into the family and help your child cope with a new stepfamilyMore than a hundred pieces of artwork from children of divorce will help you appreciate how kids perceive the experience. Dozens of special activities and fun exercises will help you communicate and get closer to your child. This guide shows you that divorce need not be an inevitable blot on children's lives, but an opportunity for them to grow and strengthen the bonds with their parents.

Amazon.com Review
Kids tend to blame themselves when parents divorce. The Sandcastles workshop--now mandatory in over a dozen counties throughout the United States--is a half-day group session for children of divorce between the ages of 6 and 17. This intensive workshop helps kids open up and deal with their feelings through drawings, games, poetry, role playing, and other activities. Helping Your Kids Cope with Divorce details many of the workshop exercises, all designed to increase communication, understanding, and togetherness between parents and kids. The book is also packed full of suggestions on everything from the best way to break the divorce news to a child (it differs according to age group) to facing the holidays, visitation, custody arrangements, anger, discipline, co-parenting, single parenting, overcompensation, sorrow, custody fights, and much more. Author Gary Neuman never patronizes or preaches, and although he is technically a child advocate, he proves himself to be an advocate of every member of the divorcing family. Neuman takes a hands-on approach and believes that children need not be permanently scarred by divorce--that with work and time, divorce can actually become a positive force for change. A powerful tool for protecting children caught amid parental struggles, Helping Your Kids Cope with Divorce should be required reading in all divorcing families. --Ericka Lutz

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 34 reviews)

Helping Kids Cope With Divorce by L. Tuomala

5 Stars
November 01, 2009
Great service. This is a great book for parents who want to understand how children view divorce and help them to cope with changes brought about by divorce

Helping Your Kids Cope with Divorce by James Yoder (Bakersville, North Carolina)

5 Stars
October 16, 2009
This book should be a must read for anyone going through divorce. You won't read in in one night, but it is really worth it.

Highly Recommended by Roxanne Wadsworth (Chicago, IL)

5 Stars
October 01, 2009
I highly recommed this book to parents going through divorce. This book covers the topic based on child development. I work as a pediatric nurse practitioner, and recommend this book to all my patients who are divorced or seperated.

Divorcing with children? Your family deserves this book! by G. Auxier (Gainesville, Florida)

5 Stars
July 20, 2009
Divorce happens on a day but the fall our lasts for years. This book is easy to find all kinds of subjects and all kinds of answers to help deal with that fallout. You can keep it handy and it will serve your family well. The real value lies in the fact that you don't have to sit down and gulp the huge book down in one sitting. It is like a reference book. Find the age of your children start reading. It has a really good index so you can find subjects about what's going on in your situation now. You can read ahead and know what to expect and you can look back and find out why a child may have come to some conclusion that you would not have considered. This book is a good deal! Well organized, a reference.

Great great book by Denise Filley (Overland Park, KS)

5 Stars
May 23, 2009
This book is so useful to parents in understanding the child and how to help them. Great resources and ideas... Some other books to consider as well: Assessment and Treatment Activities for Children, Adolescents, and Families: Practitioners Share Their Most Effective TechniquesCreative Interventions for Children of DivorceCreative Interventions for Troubled Children & Youth

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