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25 Things to Do When Grandpa Passes Away, Mom and Dad Get Divorced, or the Dog Dies

Activities to Help Children Suffering Loss or Change

Laurie Kanyer

Children experience all sorts of grief and loss - a death in the family, a divorce, an unexpected move, the loss of a pet. They need ways to acknowledge these losses and they need to be able to express their grief in physical ways. Some children need the activities we consider traditional: they conduct ceremonies or write letters to the people they have lost. Other children, overflowing with the anger that is a natural part of grief, need to pound, punch, run and jump. Still others want to express their grief through art. This book provides dozens of activities that help bereaved children. The author explains the value of each activity so that parents and caregivers can select appropriate projects based on the child's age, kind of loss and stage in the grieving process. She also discusses how learning about grief prepares children for new relationships and to accept losses later in life.

15x15cm

127 pages

$23.00

Adult Children of Divorce

How to Overcome the Legacy of Your Parents' Breakup and Enjoy Love, Trust, and Intimacy

Jeffrey Zimmerman & Elizabeth Thayer

Parent's relationships greatly influence one's core beliefs about marriage as an institution. This guide teaches the adult children of divorced parents, how to identify their inherited distrust of relationships and develop, in their own lives, fulfilling and lasting partnerships of their own.
With this guide, readers learn that the effects of divorce are neither permanent nor defining. They find out how to evaluate the level of dysfunction that brought about their parents' divorce. By working through this book, readers will master healthy boundary-setting skills and communication techniques. By letting go of guilt, pain, and anger, they find out how to forgive their parents, and in doing so, discover new ways of enriching their own relationships.

15x24cm

190 pages

$30.00

After Your Divorce

Creating the Good Life on Your Own (Rebuilding Books: Relationships-Divorce-And Beyond )

Cynthia MacGregor & Robert Alberti

It's over. The divorce is final, he's out of your house and mostly out of your life. Now what? Are you ready to get on with your life? Do you have dreams, plans, skills, energy for what comes next? And will you be making it happen, or letting it happen? MacGregor and Alberti have prepared a friendly, straightforward manual of advice and suggestions that assumes every woman is capable of handling life on her own. Helps for emotional recovery (MacGregor is a survivor, Alberti is a psychologist), practical matters (credit, home repairs), dealing with your ex (be assertive!), helping your children to cope (we didn't divorce you!), and much more.

22x16cm

238 pages

$30.00

Divorce Helpbook for Teens

Cynthia MacGregor

This warm and friendly guide offers a helping hand to teens struggling to answer the tough questions when their parents divorce: Why do parents get divorced? How will the divorce change our lives? What can I do to feel less depressed? Whom can I talk with about my problems? What's likely to happen next? How do you tell absent parents that they don't visit often enough? How do you say "no" to parents who want you to carry messages to, or spy on, the other parent? What is there to talk about when you visit a parent who's moved away?Packed with vignettes, strategies, and solid advice, The Divorce Helpbook for Teens is a resource teens will keep in their backpacks, on their bedside tables, and in their hearts as they go through the difficult times surrounding a family breakup.

21x15cm

134 pages

$29.00

How to be a Good Divorced Dad

Being the best parent you can be before, during, and after the break-up

Jeffrey Leving

A definitive how-to resource for divorced dads of any age, background, and marriage history, this book has targeted guidance and suggests techniques for staying connected with children and dealing with ex-wives - and in some cases a new girlfriend or the wife's new boyfriend - during the divorce and afterwards. This upbeat book offers good news for divorced dads and counters many of the myths that paint divorcing fathers as alienated, irresponsible, or absent. It includes advice for overcoming limited access to children with cooperative responses and legal remedies if necessary. It also reveals how to avoid depression and feelings of guilt that can cause a divorced dad to give up and lose connection with his kids. As well as ideas for responding to an ex-wife's remarriage, moving, unfounded accusations, and other common issues, the book offers guidance for engaging in new relationships and possibly remarriage

23x15cm

180 pages

$34.00

Joint Custody with a Jerk

Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, a Hands On, Practical Guide to Coping with Custody Issues That Arise with an (4TH ed.)

Julie Ross & Judy Corcoran

Parenting is difficult enough in a family where the two parents love and respect each other. In divorce, where the respect has diminished and the love has often turned into intense dislike, co-parenting cane drive on or both parents to the brink of insanity. "Joint Custody with a Jerk "offers many proven communication techniques that will help you deal with your difficult ex-husband or ex-wife by describing examples of common problems and teaching you to examine your role in these sticky situations. These strategies for effective mediation are easy to apply, down-to-earth, and innovative.

22x16cm

256 pages

$30.00

Mom's House, Dad's House for Kids

Feeling at Home in One Home or Two

Isolini Ricci

Supports the child and the parent so they can bounce back from disappointment, stress and major changes. There are frank answers, stories, tips, lists, ways to "train your brain", and maps for marking family progress. Children will be relieved to see their thoughts and experiences affirmed in words.
Dealing with parents living apart, schedules, and dueling house rules Managing stress, guilt, fear, and the special energy of adrenaline Avoiding the "miserable middle" when parents disagree or fight Considering words to try for talking with parents about difficult things Learning about several different ways to solve a problem or reach a goal Settling in with their family and stepfamily in one home or two believing in themselves, their uniqueness, their dreams and goals
This book does more than help kids cope, it is the wise, upbeat, and inspiring guide that children and parents will refer to again and again.

22x15cm

251 pages

$32.00

Rebuilding

When Your Relationship Ends 4th ed

Bruce Fisher, revised by Robert Alberti

If you are going through a painful breakup or divorce, you may feel like the life you once knew is crashing down around you. You need help to gather the pieces and rebuild yourself from the ground up. Rebuilding features divorce process rebuilding blocks, a proven-effective, nineteen-step process for putting one s life back together after divorce, devised by Fisher.
Now the most widely-used approach to divorce recovery, the rebuilding model makes the process healthier and less traumatic for those who are divorcing or divorced and their children. Over two decades of research and practice are combined with feedback from hundreds of thousands of men and women who have used the book on their own, or in one of thousands of Fisher divorce recovery seminars worldwide.
This book also includes Fisher s detailed Healing Separation model the first of its kind to offer couples a healing alternative to the usual slide from separation to divorce. This fourth edition, revised with the assistance of psychologist and marriage and family therapist Robert Alberti, continues Bruce s tradition of straight-to-the-heart response to the needs of his clients and readers. If you ve been struggling to rebuild your life after a divorce, this book offers just the right balance of shoulder-to-cry-on and kick-in-the-pants self-help!

23x15cm

328 pages

$38.00

Shared Parenting

Raising your children cooperatively after separation

Jill Burrett and Miichael Green

Shows how shared parenting can work after separation and how both parents can maintain meaningful relationships with their children.
The authors provide sample parenting plans - both complex and simple - for various types of separated families. The practical tools they offer work in every party's best interests - especially the children's. With legislation in many jurisdictions now enshrining shared parental responsibility and parenting time, the authors show separated parents how to make this work. They cite supporting research which indicates how important it is for children to continue meaningful relationships after family breakdown. Myths and misconceptions are dealt with, together with practical advice on how parents can get past their hurt and anger and focus on approaches that will benefit their children. The authors also tackle the nuts and bolts of weekly routines and include useful suggestions on timetabling and communication between households. Once a good shared parenting arrangement is in place, the emotional benefits reveal themselves: � mums becoming more comfortable with sharing the children; � dads learning to truly be with the children; and � children being happier in shared care arrangements, and so benefiting their parent. (Aust)

14x22cm

192 pages

$24.95


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