You've decided to get a divorce and you have to tell your children. How do you explain all the changes that are coming and what it will mean to them?

In this read-along-with-your-children book, all the aspects of divorce are explained in an easy-to-understand way. Children will understand better what impact the divorce will have on their lives and that even though they will be going through many changes, that they will still be loved and cared for - only within the new family structure.

• 1998 - Random House - Paperback - 1st Edition
• Helping Your Kids Cope with Divorce the Sandcastles Way
• By M. Gary Neuman L.M.H.C.
• With Patricia Romanowski
• New - Collectible

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 stepfamily

More 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.

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

Where is God? That's a question often asked by people crying out from the anguish of their pain. Quite often, those asking the question are people who have long believed in God, but who feel betrayed by God's apparent inattention to their pain and suffering.

If God is all powerful and all good, why is there such evil, pain, and suffering in the world? A good God, as the argument goes, would end all suffering and eradicate all pain. Since pain and suffering are present, God must therefore not be good or must not be capable of dealing with evil and tragedy in this world. The problem of evil and pain has raised serious questions in the minds of millions as to whether God is even there.

Not surprisingly, the presence of pain, suffering, and evil in this world have caused many people to walk away from their faith. Others, while not rejecting God's existence, are walking in anger or confusion with respect to their faith.

Written for the busy Christian, this short eBook (approximately 6,000 words) addresses the issues of pain and suffering. It explains why God allows bad things to happen (often to good people) and how people of faith can cope effectively with difficulty in their lives.

If you would like a fairly quick, but encouraging, read that can help you understand God better and explain God better to others, this eBook is for you.

Where is God? That's a question often asked by people crying out from the anguish of their pain. Quite often, those asking the question are people who have long believed in God, but who feel betrayed by God's apparent inattention to their pain and suffering.

If God is all powerful and all good, why is there such evil, pain, and suffering in the world? A good God, as the argument goes, would end all suffering and eradicate all pain. Since pain and suffering are present, God must therefore not be good or must not be capable of dealing with evil and tragedy in this world. The problem of evil and pain has raised serious questions in the minds of millions as to whether God is even there.

Not surprisingly, the presence of pain, suffering, and evil in this world have caused many people to walk away from their faith. Others, while not rejecting God's existence, are walking in anger or confusion with respect to their faith.

Written for the busy Christian, this short eBook (approximately 6,000 words) addresses the issues of pain and suffering. It explains why God allows bad things to happen (often to good people) and how people of faith can cope effectively with difficulty in their lives.

If you would like a fairly quick, but encouraging, read that can help you understand God better and explain God better to others, this eBook is for you.

Designed to provide support for the difficult job of parenting and teaching gifted children, Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students: Helping Kids Cope With Explosive Feelings provides the resource parents and teachers need to not only understand why gifted children are so extreme in their behavior, but also learn specific strategies to teach gifted children how to live with their intensity.

Presented in an easy-to-read, conversational style, Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students uses real-world examples through case studies and role-plays that show parents and teachers how to interact with gifted children in a way that teaches them how to recognize, monitor, and adjust their behavior. Worksheets, tip sheets, and checklists are included to help parents, teachers, and the students themselves learn to cope with the explosive feelings that often accompany giftedness. Specific strategies for stress management, underperformance in school, perfectionism, and social anxiety make this a must-read for anyone wishing to make a positive lasting impact on the lives of gifted children.

• ISBN13: 9780962050206
• Condition: New
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A practical format for allowing children to understand the concept of death and develop coping skills for life.

"Dr. LaGrand's advice and recommendations reach from and to both heart and head ... a powerful and important lesson about grief – that even in grief, we can still grow." – Kenneth J. Doka, PhD, senior consultant, Hospice Foundation of America

Through Your Loss Comes The Strength to Grow

Whether the death of a loved one is sudden or follows a long battle with illness, there is no way to prepare for the loss of someone close. Grieving is painful, but you have a choice in how you cope with grief and – most importantly – how you adapt to the intense loss you've experienced.

Grief counseling expert Dr. Louis LaGrand describes 101 tips and prescriptions to help mourners through their tragic loss. His specific coping strategies offer practical advice, ultimately giving you pathways for achieving lasting inner peace by using the one thing you can control – your own response to grief.

Heal your inner grief and find peace by:
*Starting each day with an affirmative action
*Establishing a grief or worry time
*Planning in advance for birthdays, anniversaries, and important holidays
*Learning to enjoy new routines
*Letting go of "if onlys" and "what ifs"
*Never ruling out happiness (20110915)

• ISBN13: 9780962050220
• Condition: New
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Discusses basic concepts of marriage and divorce. Offers children a creative way to sort out the stressful feelings of grief caused by change.