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Telling your children you’ve decided to get divorced is a difficult task. It’s hard to find the right words to say and even harder not to let your own anger, hurt, fear and disappointment color your words. But how you tell your children that mom and dad won’t be living together anymore can make a significant difference in their own ability to accept and adjust to the divorce.
How Do I Tell the Kids About the Divorce? A Create-a-Storybook Guide to Preparing Your Children - with Love! is an innovative aid developed to help parents talk to their children about divorce. Developed by therapist Rosalind Sedacca, CCT, after divorce forced her to have this conversation with her own children, the book guides parents in creating a personalized photo album-style book to use when they talk to their children about their divorce.
Fill-in-the-blank templates for creating a personalized story with age-appropriate text are provided with Sedacca’s informative book for parents, How Do I Tell the Kids about the Divorce? The book answers parents’ questions and helps them find the appropriate words to say to their children.
Sedacca says the six essential messages you must give your children when you tell them you are getting divorced are:
- You are, and always will be, loved by Mom and Dad.
- You are, and will continue to be, safe.
- You are not to blame for any of this.
- Mom and Dad will still always be your Mom and Dad.
- This is about change, not about blame.
- Everything is going to be okay.
How Do I Tell the Kids about the Divorce? is a valuable guidebook for parents. This book will help you find the right words to use when talking to your children about your divorce. I recommend it. For more information on How Do I Tell the Kids about the Divorce? by Rosalind Sedacca and the companion Create-a-Story guide, click here.
