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Helping Your Children Cope With Divorce

6 April 2018 by Martin Franklin

A divorce is never easy especially when children are involved. If you are currently going through a divorce and have concerns about the impact it will have on your children. You are probably wondering how you can minimize any emotional damage that your children may suffer. Here are some strategies for helping your children cope with divorce.

Take Care Of Yourself

The first thing you should do when going through a divorce is take care of yourself. Your divorce will be stressful on your children and they will absorb even more stress if you start looking run down and ill. Take care of your appearance and watch what you eat. You cannot help your children if you do not have the energy to do so.

Children Need To Know They Are Faultless

A very common belief that children have when their parents get divorced is that it is their fault. They are likely to feel that they were not good enough or perfect enough and that this is why their parents are divorcing. This is irrational reasoning but don't be surprised if you get it from your children, especially younger ones. The best thing you can do is to let them know continuously that they are in no way responsible for your divorce.

Allow Your Children To Vent

Sometimes your child may need to vent, don't take it personally. Parents are the hallmark of security and stability in a child's life and when there is a change in the parenting dynamic that causes separation, children are likely to become angry. Validate their feelings and let them know that you understand why they may feel the way they do. Be patient, it will take a while for things to calm down and settle into a routine.

Let Your Children Know They Are Still Loved

A divorce will bring many of your children's insecurities to the forefront and one of the main ones may be a feeling that one or both of their parents don't love them anymore. You have to make sure you tell your children in words or actions constantly that this is not the case. It may take a while for the message to sink in but if you keep instilling it, eventually they will believe it.

Divorce is never easy on children and it is up to you as a parent to help them to get through it with as little emotional scars as possible. Contact a clinic, like The A Treatment Center ,for more help.

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