Separation, divorce, death, re-marriage, incarceration, and relocation. These life events change families and often create challenges or obstacles for the children involved.
Divorce usually changes many things in a young child’s life, including family structure, lifestyle, and the child’s home. As a result, children of divorcing parents may feel sad, lonely, angry, or confused. And, like the young boy in this story, they often feel that they are to blame. With this gentle story, young children can begin to understand that divorce is about grown-up problems, while getting comforting answers to their most pressing questions.
Suicide is hard for many adults to understand and extremely difficult to explain to children. This unique story and activity workbook equips you with the tools necessary to help explain suicide openly and honestly to children and open the lines of communication between you and a grieving child. Includes parent section, resource list and grief chart.
Talking Tools includes 8 discussion-oriented games covering the topics of frustration management, expression of feelings, friendship, safety, cooperation, divorce, bereavement and self-concept.
Buddy is upset because his parents are separating. When he starts fighting with other children and making low grades in school, his mother suggests he meet with the school counselor.
Children will identify with Buddy as he deals with issues commonly associated with divorce or re-marriage. The story is followed with animated questions to reinforce the lessons presented. The issues presented in Buddy’s Family Changes are further emphasized in an entertaining yet sensitive Dragon game. The games consist of animated colorful dragons placed in a series of realistic decision making situations where the viewers are invited to choose from different emotions and possible reactions. Kits include reproducible activities as well as a presenter’s guide.
Every child whose parents are going through a separation or divorce should have a copy of this workbook. The 40 activities provide sensitively written information and activities on such issues as coping with feelings, staying out of the middle of parental problems, reacting to a parent who begins to date again, and much more.
