February 2, 2012
The Top Ten Things Kids of Divorce Need. . .
Immediate reassurance When children first find out that their parents are getting a divorce they may wonder what will happen to them. Once a parent has left, they may wonder if the other parent will leave them, too. They need immediate reassurance that they will be cared for by a responsible parent. Honest age appropriate […]
January 18, 2012
Sharing and Caring at GriefWorks
For the last fourteen months Southwest Airline Safety Specialist and GriefWorks Volunteer Brent Askins has entered in a significant, healing way into the lives of children, teens and their adult family members who are struggling with grief. Some children have lost a parent, others a sibling, and some a grandparent or close family member or […]
January 16, 2012
Monica Epperson answers, “Why Children of Divorce?”
Curled up in a porcelain bathtub that had been donated to my elementary school library to encourage kids to read, I read, for the first time, about a girl going through her parents’ divorce. I couldn’t put the book down. Judy Blume had single-handedly pulled me out of my distaste for reading and provided a […]