Kids of divorce tell their stories, share their experiences, and open up difficult emotional territory
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SPLIT
- shows children that they are not alone
- encourages them to understand and talk more openly about their feelings — with family, friends, teachers, and especially parents.
- offers invaluable tools for effective communication, conflict resolution and active listening.
SPLIT is primarily for children of divorcing parents between the ages of six and twelve. The secondary audience is divorcing adults and professionals working with parents and children during and after the divorce process, including: lawyers specializing in family law, family court services and counseling centers, professional mediation service providers, educators, psychologists and family therapists, and other family and health care providers centers.
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SPLIT will help kids:
- Understand that divorce is not their fault
- Feel validated for their emotions and experiences
- Affirm their right to love both parents
- Learn to identify and cope with feelings of anger and sadness
- Talk in “I” messages to tell parents how they feel
- Recognize they are not alone!
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SPLIT will help parents:
- Focus on the emotions and needs of their children during and after divorce
- Learn parenting styles with greater sensitivity to their children’s experience
- Improve communication skills between children and their parents
- Recognize underlying causes of their children’s behavior
- Build networks with parents in similar situation.
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