There’s a Monster in My Closet! “There’s a monster in my closet!”  How many times have you heard that at bed time?   Children can create all sorts of monsters in the closet!  Parents invent all kinds of various remedies to get rid of the monsters hoping to eliminate the fears and worries of their […]

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 […]

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 […]