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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">With chapters
like “It’s not about you</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">—</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">It just feels like it is,” “How did we get
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explaining the whys of parental divorce. For a teen trying to negotiate life,
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developmental task of being a teen is to understand the world that he or she is
getting ready to enter as an adult. Consequently, teens spend a lot of time
trying to understand why adults do what they do, say what they say, and make the
decisions that they make. Cynthia MacGregor does not avoid the hard questions that
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chapter MacGregor tells stories about teens and their experiences of divorce. These
stories make it easier for young readers to stay interested. MacGregor also ends
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book for teens. It can be helpful for a teen to read alone and it can also
serve as the type of book that parents and teens can read and discuss together.
This book can answer some of the many questions teens have about their own
situations, and it can open lines of communication between parents and children
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Dash is a rabbit whose Dad moves out and his mom and dad divorce. Dash has a broken heart and sometimes feels so sad that he does not feel like playing. He wonders how it could be that his dad still loves him. However, after spending time at his dad’s new place, he begins to feel loved by Dad and realizes that his parents still love him.</span></span><br />
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information.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is 241 pages long and
covers everything that has to do with divorce, from the moment a child is told
about the breakup to when the parents remarry and form a stepfamily. The
author gives practical and helpful information about feelings, problems with
parents, and understanding divorce from the perspective of the Catholic Church.
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child whose parents are divorced and the problems that child encounters. After
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This book would be a great tool for a small group.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can easily see how an adult group leader
could read a chapter at each group session and focus the group discussion around
that topic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The questions could also be
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8 to 12, which would be grades 3 through 6. However, I believe this book seems
geared towards the middle school aged child, ages 11 to 13, and I think it
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children of divorce.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would be perfect
for the Catholic middle schooler whose parents are divorcing and who is either
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of my all-time favorite books about divorce for preschool and early elementary school children. <i>Mama and Daddy Bear’s Divorce</i> focuses on what is most important
to the young child. The young child needs
to have his or her feelings acknowledged and validated, needs to know what is
changing and what is staying the same, and must be reassured over and over
again about who loves them. This book
hits the nail on the head in all these areas.
Written from the perspective of the youngest bear in the family, Dinah
shares what she likes, her sad feelings, and her adjustment to Mama and Daddy’s
divorce. The illustrations are perfect for a young child, with the members of Dinah's bear family
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this book to multiple children and every child I have read it to likes it and
finds it relatable in some way. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>Mama and Daddy Bear’s Divorce</i></span></span> always creates conversation and often
allows the child to express feelings and ask questions. Many children have asked to take this book
home after we read it together. It gives me so much pleasure to grant that
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and his brother every night after reading a book and tucking them into
bed. When Mom remarries and two stepsisters join the family, this child wonders if Mom is sharing this nightly
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preschool and early elementary age children is less about divorce and more
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how remarriage creates more changes in a child's life. The book offers strategies for parents to help a
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">The Children of Divorce: Loss of
Family as Loss of Being</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">By Andrew
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">Baker
Academic Press, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2010</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Andrew Root writes like the well-educated
man he is.<span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Root holds a doctorate from Princeton
Theological Seminary and teaches in the youth and family ministry department
at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. His trendy, youth-friendly website, <a href="http://andrewroot.org/">andrewroot.org</a>, describes him as a professor,
author, speaker, and thinker. He has written 10 other books, all falling
loosely within the category of youth ministry.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The Children of
Divorce</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> appears to be written for very educated readers, perhaps clergy
members with master’s or doctoral degrees in divinity. The six ministry leaders who recommend
his book on the back cover all work at seminaries, universities, or youth
agencies. Root spends quite a bit of time examining divorce from the
perspective of famous philosophers and theologians. The sources he draws from most
heavily include a British sociologist named Anthony Giddens (born 1938), a
German philosopher named Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), and a Swiss theologian
named Karl Barth (1886-1968).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Root has also steeped himself in the
current literature about children of divorce in late 20<sup>th</sup> and early
21<sup>st</sup> century America. He makes frequent reference to some of the
leading researchers and writers, including Stephanie Coontz, Elizabeth
Marquardt, Sarah McClanahan, David Royko, Gary Sandefur, Stephanie Staal,
Judith Wallerstein, and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Root’s major point – which he returns to
repeatedly – is that parental divorce shakes the very core of a child’s being
in a way that few other losses, including death, can match. This is so, he argues,
because divorce represents a disintegration of the union that brought the child
into the world in the first place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Here’s a good example, from page 50:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“When divorce strikes it impacts young
people at the level of their lived world. It radically changes their social
environment, but more significantly, it rearranges their inner concept of the
environment of the self. They have known their ‘I’ through the lived world of
their mom and dad. The child’s very ‘I’ knows itself, but more radically, it <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is</i> at all because the social environment
of Mom and Dad provides the ‘I’ of the child a lived world she has taken into
herself and made her own. When her social environment implodes, her lived world
is shaken, and to such a degree that she is forced to even question her ‘I.’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Divorce thrusts the child into anxiety
because it strikes the dependability of the social unit that is responsible for
his or her being. It thrusts a division within the child’s own identity. He is
cared for and need not fear for his next meal, for example, but he is anxious,
for the very union that is responsible for his existence has regretted and
aborted its unity of being. He <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is</i>
because they <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">are</i>. But now the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">they</i> is not and will never be again. What
then is the meaning of his existence when the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">they</i> is now divided?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A key philosophical term Root uses often is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ontology</i>. Webster’s tells us this is a branch of metaphysics
concerned with the nature and relations of being. Root frequently asserts that
divorce threatens a child’s being, existence, and ontological security. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A Critique</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I can’t argue with the author’s central
point that divorce strikes deep at the root – get it? -- of a person’s being. This
is undoubtedly true, and sad, because divorce has become so widespread in
America today. Reading this book has been a painful reminder of divorce-related
hurts in my own family. However, Root makes the ontological point so many times
that it becomes a bit repetitive. Perhaps this is forgivable, because Root is a
child of divorced parents and at some level might have still been processing his loss as he wrote this book.
His mother and father divorced when he was in graduate school and engaged to be
married. Root’s fiancee’s parents also announced their divorce about the same
time, leading to a most unusual circumstance at the time of their wedding: one
marriage was beginning while two others had just ended.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Another critique: despite several
references to the field of psychology, I’m disappointed not to see Root provide
a fuller discussion of the normal human response to loss. In my own healing
journey, a major <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Aha!</i> moment came
when I realized that there was a term for the cluster of intermittent, uncomfortable,
and sometimes baffling emotions I had been feeling since my parents broke up,
and that term was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">grief</i>. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Suggested
Ministry Initiatives</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Root suggests action steps for youth
workers and children’s ministers in the sixth and final chapter. They are broken
down into four parts, each corresponding to an important theme of the book. For
example, the concept of mirroring is central to Barth’s theory of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">imago Dei</i> (Latin for image of God). In a
nutshell, this theory holds that man derives his being only in relationship
with God, yet at the same time, God is only made real in the world – you might
say mirrored or reflected – through the actions of his beloved creatures. So
seeing and being seen become important ways to affirm a person’s being. Root
suggests using the concept of mirroring to help strengthen the weakened sense
of self experienced by many children of divorced parents. According to Root, an
action step might include approaching tweens and teens to communicate your
understanding of the situation. A long drawn-out encounter might be counterproductive,
but a brief “Hey, I know this is a really hard time,” sends a message that the
child exists and is visible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Root also encourages allowing multiple ways
for kids to express their pain, such as art, drama, or discussion. He strongly
suggests holding a panel discussion, allowing kids from divorced families to
speak of their experience. “These shared stories of pain and questioning, when
spoken, have the power to become a significant part of the narrative quilt of
the community.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The author’s other suggestions include:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Work to know the stories of the young people with whom you
work.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Spend energy convening places for adults in the congregation
to listen to and speak with young people. Inform adults of the importance of
seeing and hearing young people and allow young people to see and hear them.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Assess your routines and rituals, helping young people take
ownership of them and make sure they are hospitable to young people. Open space
may be just as meaningful as programs.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Provide opportunities for young people to pray with and for
adults in the congregation. The key is that this prayer becomes an act of
seeing and hearing one another before God. This must be done with great care,
and in such a way that it possesses great significance.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Weekly programs have power not just in their entertainment
value, but also in their ability to become routines and rituals for kids whose
home lives may be chaotic and unpredictable.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Work with the congregation to find ways to bless young
people, but don’t allow this to become an empty activity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Celebrate juvenile rites of passage, such as Boy Scout
achievements, graduations, basketball games, school plays.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Provide children with space and ways to share their gifts
with the community, such as drawing worship bulletin covers, painting pictures
to hang in the church building, and performing music during worship.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Provide young people with a variety of ways to tell their
stories. Allow these stories to be painful if necessary, but also remember to
celebrate and care for one another in gladness and joy.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">My
Take on These Ideas</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Of the suggestions made above, the easiest,
cheapest, and quickest way to start might be with prayer. Simply to break
silence and acknowledge before God that a number of children in the community
have been hurt by parental divorce and need healing would send a powerful
message of affirmation to the affected kids and strengthen their sense of self,
as well as their sense of belonging within the congregation. Certain times may
be better than others for a prayer like this to be uttered aloud in public. Perhaps
such a prayer would be appropriate any time the congregation is focused on the
needs of children, for example, when the appointed Scripture reading touches on
Jesus’ teachings related to children, or Isaiah’s prophecy of comfort for those
who mourn. Another appropriate time for such a prayer may be during a healing
service, when many other sorts of hurts, harms, and sorrows are brought before
the Great Physician. </span></div>
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The panel discussion idea has merit – panel discussions are fairly easy to
organize and can be adapted to a wide variety of topics, including healing from
parental divorce. But these events need to be carefully managed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do not think the panel discussion idea as it is described in Root's book is practical or workable. Embarrassment, hurt feelings, and negative reverberations
could result if participants’ grief and pain spill out in an uncontrolled and
public manner. Two key points would be to focus the discussion around a
positive theme, e.g., how adult panelists have healed from their parents’
divorces; and to select these panelists from outside the congregation. This
way, if panelists choose to reveal details of how they’ve been hurt they will
not implicate others who may be sitting in the audience. Such a panel
discussion would be more complicated and expensive to produce, so it might be a
piece to add later.</span></div>
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Downingtown, Pennsylvania.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It's Not Your Fault,</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> KoKo Bear</span></b>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">By Vicki Lansky</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Illustrated by Jane Prince</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Book Peddlers, Minnetonka, Minnesota, 1998</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Reviewed by Laura Harting </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span>Written in
the late 90s for the preschool and early elementary aged child, this book is a
classic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t think it will ever go
out of style.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Though the
main focus of the book is to assure children that divorce is not their fault,
it also addresses a child’s feelings, the difficulty of having two homes, and
why parents divorce.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>KoKo Bear
struggles with drawing a family picture at school and with forgetting things at
Dad's or Mom’s house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>KoKo Bear also shares
mad, sad, and scared feelings and wishes they all still lived together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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is a book to read with your child. It
asks questions to encourage discussion about feelings and there are plenty of helpful notes for parents in small type at the bottom of every page.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is important to
note that an emphasis near the end of the book is on telling KoKo Bear that
they are still a family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While more
recent books focus on the child now being a part of two families, this book
states that MaMa and PaPa and KoKo Bear are still a family, just a family
apart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I like how
the book addresses feelings and why parents divorce.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like that it focuses on the divorce not
being the fault of the child.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like
that this is an imaginary family of bears, which maintains a helpful emotional distance
for a young child.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, I found
myself a bit confused by the idea that the family is still a family, only a
family that lives apart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> P</span>erhaps your child will not find that confusing and may find it reassuring.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Dear Mr. Henshaw</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">By</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Beverly Cleary</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Despite the
fact the first edition of this book dates back to 1983 and kids do not write letters much
any more, I have to give this book a high rating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is extremely well written.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Illustrated to
appeal to a child in late elementary or early middle school, this book of
fiction tells the story of a young boy whose father and mother separate and
divorce.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Leigh has a school assignment
to write to an author and ask three questions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He chooses to write to Boyd Henshaw, the author
of his favorite book, a dog training guide he has read many times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The author responds and then asks him several
questions in return.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Much to Leigh’s
dismay his mother limits his access to TV until he answers
all of the questions the author has asked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After several letters, Leigh finds writing to
be something that is not so bad and takes Henshaw’s suggestion to write in
a journal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Leigh’s journal entries describe his
life, home situation, feelings, and thoughts about many things, especially his
parents' divorce.</span></div>
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age of this book, I think children today will find it relatable and readable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span>Young Poets Speak Out on Divorce</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span>Edited by</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span> Tom Worthen, PhD</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span><span style="font-size: large;">Logan, Utah, 2001</span></span></span></span></div>
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collection of poems written by young people ages 9 to 18.<span> </span>The poetry takes the reader from heartbreak
to resilience as these young poets share their feelings and experiences of
divorce in a particularly poignant way.<span>
</span>Designed to offer the reader a place to come where he or she is not alone in
the pain of divorce, this book accomplishes that task.<span> </span>The pain is real and the feelings are raw, but
the sense of camaraderie written in the pages and felt by the reader are somehow comforting.<span> </span></span></span></span></div>
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students, this is a good book to read when the divorce is new and life feels
chaotic and painful.<span> </span>Divided into
chapters based on themes, it can and should be read a little bit at a time,
rather than from start to finish.<span> </span>This
book can be picked up and read for a minute or for an hour.<span> </span>Read one poem and put it down, or read 25
poems that vary in how they connect with the reader’s experience.</span></span></span></div>
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of divorce the power to share their voices.<span> </span>Rather than adults writing about what divorce is like for children, the
children are the writers. That makes this different from any other book I have read or
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just the three of them and then goes on to share about how the family grew to
include step-parents, step-siblings, aunts, uncles, new neighbors, half
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parents have begun to introduce new partners into their children’s lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It focuses on the benefits of new family and
friends and the positive way new people can influence a child’s life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is illustrated in a unique manner by using modeling
clay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not entirely clear whether
the child at the heart of the story is a boy or a girl. Though I like the
colorful pictures of the clay models, I found myself wondering, as I looked at
the pictures, “Why does everyone just have a head, and where are their bodies?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would be interested to know if the children
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Where
Am I Sleeping Tonight?</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A
Story of Divorce</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Illustrated
by Sue Rama</span></span></div>
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by Laura Harting</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A fourth-grader named Mark struggles
with the challenges of being a responsible student while having parents who are
divorced. “Which house is my homework at
anyway?” he wonders. Mark is afraid to come to class again without his
assignment, as the words of his teacher saying “Fired! Fired! Fired!” ring in
his ears. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Written
by a retired fourth-grade teacher, this nicely illustrated 24-page paperback deals
with how to help children of divorced parents manage their school
responsibilities. Only an experienced
and compassionate teacher could offer these helpful insights on ways to address
this particular struggle for children. As Mark grapples with how to stay
organized and remember his homework while living and sleeping in two different
houses, he wishes he was a first grader again, like his brother Evan. The
younger boy’s life seems so much easier, and Mark begins to feel resentful
toward his parents who caused the whole problem by getting divorced in the
first place. However, by the end of the book Mark becomes solution-focused. He begins
to discover ideas for becoming more organized and responsible. Having mastered
his homework problem, he even looks forward to hearing “Hired! Hired! Hired!”
from his teacher.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This book
is a good read for older elementary school-aged children on how to solve problems
and manage their school lives while living in a shared custody arrangement. It
is also a good reality check for parents and step-parents. Reading it might help
these adults become more sensitive to the peculiar difficulties and challenges that
young children face following a divorce. </span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Amber Brown
Series</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">By Paula Danziger</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Reviewed by Laura
Harting</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Amber Brown
is a fictional young girl whose parents divorce when she is in the first grade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These chapter books for children in second
through fifth grade are delightfully written and hold the reader’s
interest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amber struggles through her
parents not liking each other, living in two separate places and having step-parents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In each book Amber encounters new challenges.
Some have to do with her parents’ divorce and others are simply about life as a second<sup> </sup>through fifth grader.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Amber’s father takes a job in France when her parents separate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amber’s best friend moves away. Amber’s
mother meets someone else and gets engaged. Amber’s school has a skunk infestation.
Amber’s father returns from France and finds a place to live close to
Amber.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amber now has two homes and two
families.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The first
book in the Amber Brown series was published in 1994. Danziger does a great job
of describing divorce and the changes that come with it through the eyes of an
elementary school-aged child.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She weaves
in the ups and downs of school, friends and teachers and deals with the topic
of divorce in a very realistic and sensitive way. In addition, her books are
humorous, adventurous and the characters delightful.</span></div>
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children are reading small chapter books, then this is the series for
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If they aren’t quite ready for
chapter books, these are great books to read to them or with them.</span><br />
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Harting Communications LLChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02354071502137782562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2430453173976233047.post-42601703011741220002014-08-06T06:22:00.001-07:002014-08-06T06:22:13.275-07:00Difficult to Recommend
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Albert Whitman & Co., Chicago, 1987 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Reviewed by <a href="http://bestcodbooks.blogspot.com/p/laura-harting-msw-lcsw.html">Laura Harting</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This book is quite dated with pictures of telephones with
cords and letters coming in the mail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Katie’s
daddy moves out and Katie feels discarded, angry, and sad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is worried that she might not see her father again and that he will forget about her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This story is about Daddy assuring Katie that he will not forget about her
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This book
addresses the feelings and worries about divorce of an elementary school aged
child.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, there are many other
more recent books that address these same issues, making it difficult to
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</span>Harting Communications LLChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02354071502137782562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2430453173976233047.post-12738606657192489182014-07-22T16:55:00.002-07:002014-07-22T16:56:41.253-07:00This One's a Keeper<style>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">By Jeanie Franz Ransom</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Reviewed by <a href="http://bestcodbooks.blogspot.com/p/laura-harting-msw-lcsw.html">Laura Harting</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This
book, written for the preschool and early elementary aged child, describes the
reactions of a young girl at the moment in time when her parents tell her that
they are getting a divorce.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This little
girl wants to run like a wild horse, be prickly like a porcupine, and gobble up
both her parents like a crocodile, but she does not want to hear or talk about
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and the author's description of feelings as animals is very concrete and child-focused.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The parents in this book continue to stay
with the child, encouraging her to talk, even when she roars like a lion: “I DON’T
WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The parental consistency
and ability to stay with the child through her emotional outburst is a good
model for divorcing parents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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colorfully illustrated and the use of animal imagery allows for some emotional
distance for the reader.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The focus on
the animals draws the reader into the book with a desire to turn the page to see
what animal this little girl will feel like next.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">At the end
of the book is a note to parents from psychologist Phillip Stahl, with tips for
parenting during divorce and what to expect regarding children’s feelings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is good and helpful advice
for parents of young children.</span></span></div>
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book, despite it being written 14 years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is not greatly affected by the passage of time because of the
illustrations, and the focus on animals and feelings help the text remain
relevant today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">This book is
a keeper, to be read with your young child many times over.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="http://bestcodbooks.blogspot.com/p/laura-harting-msw-lcsw.html">Laura Harting</a>, LCSW, is a child and family therapist with a practice in Paoli,
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Harting Communications LLChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02354071502137782562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2430453173976233047.post-43518906572273133892014-07-16T13:34:00.000-07:002014-08-06T06:11:54.732-07:00Written Especially for Girls<style>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A Girl’s Guide to Divorce and Stepfamilies</span></b></span></div>
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for girls between the ages of nine and 13, this book answers questions about
divorce and remarriage sent by girls to the author, who was the founding editor
of <i>American Girl</i> magazine. Each page is colorfully illustrated and has a
title at the top. The question underneath the title is signed with the girl’s
first name or a description, e.g. “Erin” or “Scared in Florida.”</span></span></div>
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book was published in 1999 but the illustrations do not cause the book to look
dated, in contrast to other books using photography. What does date the book, however, is the fact
that it is part of the American Girl Library, which was popular in the 1990s
and early 2000s. As a result, this book
might be less appealing to girls in late elementary and middle school.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> This
book addresses many issues of divorce, including violence, absent parents,
managing feelings, choosing sides, parents’ dating, remarriage and
stepfamilies, along with the more obvious concerns of two separate homes, the
confusion of traveling back and forth, managing the different rules in each
house, and celebrating the holidays.</span></span></div>
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like the question and answer format, as well as how this book addresses the difficult
issues mentioned above. I also like the tone of the writing, which empowers
girls to share their feelings and talk about what they need and what is
important to them. Finally, I like the boundaries the author sets around what
are considered adult responsibilities, while still addressing how girls can
have an impact on adult decisions.</span></span></div>
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this book will be helpful in its entirety, its appeal to the target age group may
be enhanced by photocopying certain pages addressing topics especially relevant
to one particular girl, and allowing the child to read only what is most important
to her in the moment. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">By Eric J. Adams and
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A day in the life of an elementary school child, this books
shares what it is like for Danny on the day his father moves out. Danny writes a big question in purple marker
and puts the paper in his pocket. He shares the
question with his teacher, his father, a friend, and his mother over the course of one
day. All these people answer Danny's question,
“Is it my fault?” with a "No," adding their own ideas about the question and about
divorce. Danny’s mom writes “NO” in
purple marker on the back of the question and gives it back to Danny to hold
onto for as long as he needs to. The paper finally crumbles into tiny
pieces and blows away in the wind. </span></span><br />
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illustrated, with Danny looking about 8 years old, this book deals primarily
with the feelings of guilt that children of this age can often feel. They wonder what they did to cause the
divorce and what they should do to fix it.</span></span><br />
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discussion about divorce and allow you to address any feelings of guilt. </span></span></div>
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the elementary school age child. Powell uses
the text to provide answers to the most common questions this age group has
about divorce. With every page turn there is a new question, starting with
“What is a family?” Other, even bigger questions include “Why do families break up?” “Who can you talk to?” “How will things change?”
and “What is a stepfamily?”</span></span></div>
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make that quite obvious. In addition,
some of the guidance may no longer apply. For example, the author writes “….you
will probably live with one parent.” Though this was more likely to be true in the 1980s and 90s, in my
practice today, more children split their time between two homes. Though I like how this book is arranged, with
the questions on each page to be answered, the dated photos and information
make it hard for me to recommend.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">By Fred Rogers</span></div>
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to the style made famous by the long-running TV show <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,</i> this book is direct, clear, warm, and
child-centered. It is written for the elementary school age child and the text covers
the basics. Rogers begins by defining families as people who keep you safe,
give you food, and take care of you. When defining divorce, Rogers mentions what
changes and what stays the same in the family. Talking, drawing, and pounding
clay are some of the activities he offers for coping with feelings. He also
provides basic facts about divorce. </span></div>
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book remains relevant 18 years after it was published, however it is also quite
dated. Children reading this book today may have a difficult time relating to
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therapist with a practice in Paoli, Pennsylvania.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Cover art copyright Abdo & Daughters, 1993</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Breakfast for Dinner</b><br />Part of the Children of Courage series<br />By Cynthia DiLaura Devore, M.D.<br />Published by Abdo and Daughters<br />Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1993<br /><br />Reviewed by <a href="http://bestcodbooks.blogspot.com/p/laura-harting-msw-lcsw.html">Laura Harting</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is a book for elementary
school aged children, nicely illustrated and meant to provide a read-along opportunity
with a parent or counselor. The author helps kids to understand what divorce
is, why it happens, and what to do when it happens to you. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> This book
addresses the issue of fault in an unusual manner. Though every book I have
read so far for the elementary school aged child says divorce is not the
child’s fault, this book also says that it is the parents’ fault. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The author also explains how adult
relationships change over time and how this change can lead to parents not
living together any more. How to cope with change is a central focus, and the author
encourages children to talk about their feelings even when they don’t want to,
or find talking difficult.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> My overall
impression of this book is positive. I found myself thinking this would be a
good book to read several times over the years as children grieve the loss of
the divorce through the many changes of their development and life. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">How It Feels When Parents Divorce</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: large;">Text and Photos by Jill Krementz</span><br />
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using Jill Krementz’s books <i>How It Feels When Parents Divorce</i> and <i>How It Feels
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: large;">Over the years, this book has been particularly
engaging for the 6<sup>th</sup> to 8<sup>th</sup> grade children in my practice. Middle school is a very difficult time for
children, developmentally and socially.
It is a time when children have difficulty tolerating being different from their peers. They often worry about something being wrong with them or their family. Divorce is a sign to a child at this age that
something is very wrong. The child
avoids reading and talking about the divorce. However, when children read these stories of other children and
their families going through divorce, they do not feel different or wrong and
they do not feel so alone. That is
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noticeable. I no longer use this book because the children see how old it is
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have been trying to write a book similar to this one.
However, finding children willing to share their stories, and obtaining their parent’s
permission for the stories to be published, has proven to be an arduous task.
I have not yet been able to complete the project. Perhaps some day soon.</span></div>
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Ricci wrote the book <i>Mom’s House, Dad’s
House: Making Two Homes for Your Child</i> for parents first and then came out
with this book filled with ideas and advice for kids. The publisher states that it was written for
children between the ages of 10 and 14, but the 10-year-old would need to be an
excellent reader to tackle this book. I think it is most appropriate for 12- to
15-year-olds. </span></div>
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Ricci writes with a kid-friendly, positive tone and gives a lot of information
on all aspects of parental separation and divorce. She places a special focus on
teaching coping skills for the different experiences divorce presents to a
child. She emphasizes coping with
feelings and managing the stress that divorce causes for children. Dr. Ricci uses terms that I have used over
and over in my practice with kids, like “the miserable middle,” “train your
brain,” “solution finder,” and "big questions.”
She offers tips for how to talk with your parents about difficult topics,
and even gives ideas for how and what to write to parents when kids are too
afraid to ask a question in person. </span></div>
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enjoyed this book and recommend it to the kids I see who are good
readers. At almost 250 pages, with lots
of words on each page, this book can appear overwhelming to kids. As one middle schooler asked me
incredulously, “I have to read all those
words about divorce?” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: large;">This book
may be easiest to digest in small doses. Perhaps photocopying a few pages at a
time to give to your child to read may be the best way to convey this helpful information.</span></div>
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of my all-time favorite books about divorce.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Written for the elementary school age child, it gives the child needed
and helpful information about divorce in practical, easy-to-understand
language.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The illustrations are funny
and cute. The dinosaur characters give the child reading the book the emotional
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This book covers
all the bases, from the time of separation to the time of remarriage. It
includes a discussion of topics that matter most to kids: why parents divorce,
how to handle moving, adjusting to living in separate residences, expressing feelings,
continuing to love both parents, becoming accustomed to dating, step-parents, step-siblings, and half siblings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The authors write simply and offer just
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I counsel who have read this book like it and find it very helpful. It often
answers their questions, clears up their misunderstandings, and encourages them
to ask more questions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A third grader
can read this book alone. A child younger than third grade can read this book with
some adult help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A glossary of terms
near the beginning helps children learn the new vocabulary of divorce.</span></div>
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of this book got it just right. If you only read one book with your
elementary school child about divorce, read this one. However, I don’t recommend
reading only one book. Every child is different and different books will
resonate with each child differently. Your goal is to give your child
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Weekends with Dad</b></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">What to Expect When Your Parents Divorce</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />By Melissa Higgins<br />Illustrated by Wednesday Kirwan</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: large;">Picture Window Books, Mankato, MN</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: large;">2012<br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Reviewed by <a href="http://bestcodbooks.blogspot.com/p/laura-harting-msw-lcsw.html">Laura Harting</a></span><br /><br />This book for elementary school children tells a story about parental separation and divorce. The story is told and illustrated from the perspective of a young fox in a small family of foxes. Like other books of this genre, <i>Weekends with Dad </i>addresses the issue of child custody, family court appearances, and child support. This book is unusual, however, because it also makes mention of a school-based support group for children of divorced parents.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />Children of divorcing parents often overhear adult conversations using strange new words related to court appearances, so this book is especially useful to help children understand what those words mean. In this book, illustrated using very human-looking foxes, the school-aged fox has a meeting with a court-appointed advocate who looks like a kindly old bear who kneels down to make eye contact with the child and who asks lots of questions, including asking with whom the youngster wants to live. My experience as a child and family therapist tells me that interviews like this can be a reality for children of divorcing parents. It is good to have an elementary school age book that talks about court appearances and how children can have input into the child custody issue. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />Like other books reviewed previously on this blog, this is another good selection to read along with a child. It seems very geared towards reading with a counselor. However, it would also be a good book to read with a parent, especially if your child will be talking with a court advocate or attorney. The end of the book offers other resources, such as books, websites, an index, and a short glossary, which would also help adults explain difficult concepts to children.</span><br />
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illustrations like those found in <i>Weekends with Dad</i>, because they
provide a comforting distance for the child when reading about
emotionally charged issues. However, because the divorce is happening
to the parents of the young fox in the book, and the young fox is
speaking as if it is happening to him, that distance does not seem to
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br /><i><a href="http://bestcodbooks.blogspot.com/p/laura-harting-msw-lcsw.html">Laura Harting</a>, LCSW, is a child and family therapist in Downingtown, Pennsylvania. </i></span>Harting Communications LLChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02354071502137782562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2430453173976233047.post-4983699123249190432014-06-05T11:11:00.000-07:002014-06-18T10:32:08.760-07:00A Good Book to Read With Your Child<style>
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colorfully and realistically illustrated book for young children (pre-school
and early elementary) about parents who are separated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The young girl in the book shares her
thoughts about her parents living apart and what she likes and does not like
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book could be a good conversation starter for parents who are separated and
want to know what their young children think about them living apart. I would
recommend a parent reading this book with his or her child and then asking what
the child thinks about Mommy and Daddy living in two separate
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child to think about and articulate what they like about Mommy’s house and what
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another page the child wonders if she will get married and "get apart" when she
grows up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These pages open up the
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ask about your child’s thoughts and hear what your child is thinking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is always good to take time and open up
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