Your child will have to give up one parent to be with the other parent. How can we make that as easy as possible?
For those families dealing with divorce, the holidays bring an extra layer of complexity. In this episode of Ask Alice, Alice interviews Divorce and Family Mediation and Licensed Marriage and Family therapist, Sara Hadgraft, on how to help both parents and children enjoy the Christmas season – even if it looks different from years past. She addresses visitation schedules and gift giving, as well as providing parents with the language to address both the emotional and spiritual questions about divorce that may arise as children adjust to a new normal.
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Resources:
- www.sparrowcounsel.com
- Coparent Dilemmas podcast hosted by Diane Dierks
- BIFF for CoParent Communication: Your Guide to Difficult Texts, Emails, and Social Media Posts (Conflict Communication Series, 3) by Bill Eddy, Annette Burns, et al.
- Dinosaurs Divorce (Dino Tales: Life Guides for Families) by Marc Brown and Laurie Krasny Brown
- Two Homes by Claire Masurel
- My 2 Homes: A Game to Help Kids Understand and Accept Divorce manufactured by Childswork/Childsplay
- Caring for Single Parent Families at Christmas by Hannah Dow
- How the Church Can Help Grieving and Broken Families During the Holidays by Anna Meade Harris