Divorcing parents: how to help a child (Part 1)
There is no manual which can give you a guarantee on painless for kids divorce process. Every family has its own history of relations. There are, however, some common advices that may make adjustment a little bit easier.
We will give parents a few suggestions to make the process less distressing for a child. But first of all, parents need to be patient and wait until time itself helps to begin the healing process.
Encourage your child to talk openly about his or her positive or negative feelings.
It’s very important for divorcing and divorced parents to encourage children to say what they’re thinking and feeling. But parents need to keep this separate from their own feelings. Very often children feel a sense of loss of family and may blame one of the parents or even both for what they realize as a betrayal.
As children get older and become more mature, they may have ask other questions or concerns that they hadn’t thought about before. Even if it seems to you, that everything is clear, keep the dialogue open.
If a parent feels like he or she gets too upset to help children, it is better to ask someone else to talk to the child about it.
It’s normal for kids to have many emotions. They may feel guilty, may be angry or frightened. They may be worried that they will be abandoned by or “divorced from” their parents.
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