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KidsHealth article: A Kid's Guide to Divorce Focus on Kids: The Effects of Divorce on Children Bonus Families: Offering mediation, conflict management, support, and education to people attempting to combine families after a divorce or separation. 
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BROKEN MARRIAGE, NOT BROKEN CHILDREN
Between 1970 and 1996 the percentage of American children who go through the divorce of their parents rose from 12 to 28 percent. By 1997 one million children were experiencing the new divorce of their parents each year. This number continues to rise as the number of marriages breaking down and ending in divorce continues to rise. Divorce hurts. It hurts the two people who are declaring their marriage broken, and it hurts the children involved. While divorce is devastating for the entire family, young children experience it very differently, and very intensely. Unable to move from an egocentric point of view, they frequently personalize and internalize all the blame, anger, and tears. Most children whose parents divorce report they feel lonelier, less protected, and have more stress-filled childhoods. Many children, especially young children, feel afraid... if their parents don't love each other anymore, do they still love them, the child? How can you, their parent, help? Lynn Peterson has been there. She is herself the divorced parent of two. And in addition to her personal experience, she also has the professional experience to realize and meet head-on the special needs that children of divorce have. She is a teacher, a parenting educator, a school counselor, and is trained and experienced in the specialized field of play therapy. Lynn realized the need that young children have as they experience the stress of their parents' separation and divorce. She wrote the story of Scruffy, a small dog whose parents' are separating, to help meet those needs. ( see more about Lynn)
Lynn wrote the original version of Scruffy for her own children. Now the Scruffy e-book can come to your home, along with a companion e-book, the Scruffy Coloring Book. Children are naturally ego-centric. Young children assume that everything that happens in their world is attributable in some fashion to themselves. It is only as children grow older that they are cognitively able to recognize that they are not connected to every occurrence in the world around them. It is because of this natural way of viewing the world that children, especially young children, automatically assume that they caused the change in their family, or that their parents are splitting because they, the child, is no longer loved by their parent(s). Through sharing the story of Scruffy, especially reading it with a parent, children come to realize and find reassurance that just as Scruffy was still loved by both his parents after they separated, your child, too, is loved.
Scruffy's story opens the doors for direct and honest conversation, allowing the child to process
where their real place is in the story.
The story of Scruffy (e-book format)
Divorce can be devastating to a young child. You want your child to feel as secure and happy as possible, even through the very real stress they are experiencing. You want them to be able to grow up with as little emotional pain as possible. You want to be close to your child, to build the best parent-child bonds as possible. Scruffy and the Scruffy Coloring Book will help you with those goals. The Scruffy e-book and the Scruffy Coloring eBook are each only $7, little more than you would spend on one Happy Meal at McDonald's! The Scruffy/Scruffy Coloring Book Combo gives you both e-books for only $9...a 64% savings! Let Scruffy come entertain and help your child! To order, click on the appropriate link below, using our secure online ordering system. |
P.S. Your child's emotional health is well worth your best efforts! Help them feel better, more secure, and ready to grow into emotionally stable and fulfilled adults. Order Scruffy Today!
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