Category: Parenting
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Etiquette For Divorced Parents Attending Their Child’s Events!
A child’s letter to his divorced parents. Dear Mom and Dad, The operative word here Mom and Dad is My events. You are a guest here and I ask you to act accordingly. My events include but are not limited to: 1. My teacher’s conferences. 2. My athletic events. 3. My musical recitals. 4. My…
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Ways Divorced Parents Abandon Their Children
As we know from previous discussions about divorce, children are innocent victims. They often find themselves on a road filled with emotional land mines. When a child loses his in-tact family good, bad, or ugly as the family may be, he experiences abandonment. However the family system has been set up, the system is no…
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The Dark Side of Holidays and How to Make Them Light!
The divorce is final and now we have the challenge of the first year. The first year after your divorce and every year thereafter is going to contain holidays. As with all of our challenges in life, it is never the challenge, it is always our perception of the challenge. Years ago when I was…
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Your Child is not your Messenger! (by: Dr. Anne Brown PhD, RNCS)
One would think after going through a difficult, and many times nasty divorce from a contentious (narcissistic, borderline, psychopathic, or sociopathic for example) partner he/she might be done with you and want to move on. You will probably find this will not be the case especially if there are children involved. One reason is the…
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Grow up Mom and Dad!! (by: Anne Brown, PhD, RN CS)
Mom and Dad, what do you think it is like for me 3′-4′ high weighing in at 90-100lbs when I hear the “our family is getting divorced” conversation? I think the way things happen in life is somehow two people get together and create a family with little people like me growing up trying to…
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Divorce Visitation Requests from Your Child (by: Dr. Anne Brown, PhD, RN CS)
Part 2 – Read Part 1, the parent’s “notes,” at Dos and Don’ts of Visitation from the Therapist! Dear Mom and Dad, Please remember my life has been turned upside down and I never had a vote. I don’t have a rulebook to negotiate waters totally unfamiliar to me. It is really hard for…
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Dos and Don’ts of Visitation from the Therapist! (by: Dr. Anne Brown, PhD, RN CS)
Do treat your Children like Gold! Remember you just turned your children’s life (and they didn’t have a vote) upside down. They now have to decipher new rules, new logistics, probable logistical chaos until their stuff finally gets where it is supposed to be, emotional land mines, and they have just inherited all the things…
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Backbone Parenting: Parent or Friend?
“Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.” Carl Jung Parent: according to Webster’s dictionary, means a person who brings up and cares for another. Let’s think of our children as an empty vessel. The vessel, which we will say is the child’s individuality, is empty and needs to…
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