
Talking to Children about Divorce
A Parent's Guide to Healthy Communication at Each Stage of Divorce: Expert Advice for Kids' Emotional Recovery
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About this listen
Marriage and family therapist Jean McBride has helped more than 20,000 families navigate divorce. Now she shares her expertise with an in-depth guide to discussing divorce with your kids so you can support your child’s adjustment throughout the entire divorce process.
In Talking to Children About Divorce, Jean McBride provides you with the tools and encouragement to effectively communicate with your child about divorce. McBride brings her more than 25 years of specializing in divorce to guide you through crucial but difficult conversations and cultivate an environment of love and support throughout the divorce process. You’ll learn how to have honest conversations about different situations and emotions that may arise during divorce - from breaking the news to understanding resistance.
Whether you’re beginning the divorce process, or have been working through it for a while, Talking to Children About Divorce offers practical advice that will contribute positively to your child’s emotional wellbeing.
Learn to initiate open communication, with:
- Concrete actions to help your children weather the emotions of divorce.
- Useful scripts to guide you through a variety of situations throughout the divorce process.
- Simple steps to improve communication, both with your former spouse and with your children.
- Ten tips to maintain co-parenting success and promote healthy, happy, well-adjusted children.
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- By Phil on 12-03-19
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The Sh!t No One Tells You About Divorce
- A Guide to Breaking Up, Falling Apart, and Putting Yourself Back Together
- By: Dawn Dais
- Narrated by: Lynn Norris
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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After 12 years together, 2 children, 10 pets, and 5 properties, Dawn and her partner decided to call it quits. In the newest installment of her bestselling Sh!t No One Tells You series, Dawn tries to figure out what happened… and what happens next. Dawn takes you on her own bumpy, meandering, and often absurd journey through the destruction of a life exploded by divorce.
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A BFF Disguised as a Book
- By Amazon Customer on 04-15-25
By: Dawn Dais
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The Art of Letting Go
- By: Rania Naim, Skyla Child, Marisa Bagnato, and others
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
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We often struggle to let some people go, especially when they made that decision. We question the universe, we question ourselves, and we question everyone around us but we never truly get our answers. Letting someone go takes time, patience, and commitment to actively stop ourselves from relapsing and thinking about that person again. The Art of Letting Go helps you understand why, how, and when you should let someone go so you can move on and never look back.
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Robotic voice-painful
- By Jessica Heizman on 01-14-21
By: Rania Naim, and others
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Two Homes, One Childhood
- A Parenting Plan to Last a Lifetime
- By: Robert E. Emery Ph.D.
- Narrated by: Jonathan Coleman
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
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A researcher, therapist, and mediator, Robert Emery, PhD, details a new approach to sharing custody with children in two homes. Huge numbers of children are affected by separation, divorce, cohabitation breakups, and childbearing outside of marriage. These children have two homes. But their parents have only one chance to protect their childhood.
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Good points made, but also false accuracy of the actual reality of what the normal man goes through
- By Amazon Customer on 03-01-22
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Conscious Uncoupling
- 5 Steps to Living Happily Even After
- By: Katherine Woodward Thomas
- Narrated by: Katherine Woodward Thomas
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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We enter our romantic relationships with great love, hope, and excitement—we've found the 'one', so we plan and forge our futures together. But sometimes, for many different reasons, relationships come undone; they don't work out. Commonly, we view this as a personal failure, rather than an opportunity. And instead of honoring what we once meant to each other, we hoard bitterness and anger, stewing in shame and resentment. Sometimes even lashing out in destructive and hurtful ways, despite the fact that we’re good people at heart.
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Annoying Voice kills annoying book
- By Anthony C. on 04-18-25
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Divorce Poison
- How to Protect Your Family from Bad-mouthing and Brainwashing
- By: Dr. Richard A. Warshak
- Narrated by: Daniel Penz
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
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Your ex-spouse is bad-mouthing you to your children, perhaps even trying to turn them against you. If you handle the situation ineffectively, your relationship with your children could suffer. This groundbreaking work gives parents powerful strategies to preserve and rebuild loving relationships with their children and provides legal and mental health professionals with practical advice to help their clients and ensure the welfare of children.
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Required Reading
- By Christine Manning on 11-09-15
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Effective Co-Parenting or Parallel Parenting with a Narcissist
- Set Boundaries, Eliminate Conflict, Protect Yourself, and Raise Emotionally Secure Children
- By: Claire Brown
- Narrated by: Sera Chance
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
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Learn how to effectively raise kids with a narcissistic ex and ensure your kids are emotionally secure, mentally strong, confident, and happy. It can be done, but you need to utilize specific strategies.
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Great resources and strategies
- By RealtoReads on 03-27-24
By: Claire Brown
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Healthy Children of Divorce in 10 Simple Steps
- Minimize the Effects of Divorce on Your Children
- By: Shannon Rios Paulsen LMFT
- Narrated by: Allyson Voller
- Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
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The simple yet life-changing 10-step process this audiobook outlines will help you to make the best choices for your children to ensure their long-term health, take actions that will protect your children during this time, communicate productively with your co-parent, and release the past so you can create a love-filled future with your children.
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Concise and easy to understand!
- By L Nettles on 04-01-25
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Putting Children First
- Proven Parenting Strategies for Helping Children Thrive Through Divorce
- By: JoAnne Pedro-Carroll
- Narrated by: Karen Saltus
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
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As Dr. JoAnne Pedro-Carroll explains with clarity and compassion in this powerful book, parents can positively alter the immediate and long-term effects of divorce on their children. The key is proven, emotionally intelligent parenting strategies that promote children's emotional health, resilience, and ability to lead satisfying lives. Over the past three decades, Pedro-Carroll has worked with families in transition, conducted research, and developed and directed award- winning, court-endorsed programs that have helped thousands of families navigate divorce and its aftermath.
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PERFECT RESOURCE FOR SEPARATED/DIVORCED
- By Ly on 10-13-16
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Should I Stay or Should I Go?
- Surviving a Relationship with a Narcissist
- By: Ramani Durvasula PhD
- Narrated by: Ramani Durvasula PhD
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
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Should I Stay or Should I Go? is a survival manual, a guidebook, and a shot of reality. Some people will never change, and kissing frogs is the stuff of fairy tales, not real life. The Beast never turns out to be a nice guy (or gal). This is a book that breaks down what mean people do to us, how they do it, and what we can do to survive.
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Wake up call !
- By sashy on 08-18-16
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This Is Me Letting You Go
- By: Heidi Priebe
- Narrated by: Devon Sorvari
- Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
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Letting go is not a process that comes naturally to us. In a world that teaches us to cling to what we love at all costs, there is an undeniable art to moving on - and it's one that we are constantly relearning. In this series of honest and poignant essays, Heidi Priebe explores the harsh reality of what it means to let go of the people and situations we love most - often before we are ready to - and how to embrace what comes next.
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Not for me
- By VMar on 06-16-19
By: Heidi Priebe
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Forgiving What You Can't Forget
- Discover How to Move On, Make Peace with Painful Memories, and Create a Life That's Beautiful Again
- By: Lysa TerKeurst
- Narrated by: Lysa TerKeurst
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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Have you ever felt stuck in a cycle of unresolved pain, playing offenses over and over in your mind? You know you can't go on like this, but you don't know what to do next. Lysa TerKeurst has wrestled through this journey. But in surprising ways, she’s discovered how to let go of bound-up resentment and overcome the resistance to forgiving people who aren’t willing to make things right. With deep empathy, therapeutic insight, and rich Bible teaching coming out of more than 1,000 hours of theological study, Lysa will help you stop suffering because of what other people have done to you.
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Heartfelt and practical
- By Michelle on 12-26-20
By: Lysa TerKeurst
Phenomenal. Just phenomenal.
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Excellent, short book
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Best I've Heard So Far!
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Great Advice and sample scripts that I can taylor.
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Great overview
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The examples are horrible; the whole book is just a list of hundreds of common sense instructions. It tells you, “don’t speak disrespectfully about the other parent.” Ok I guess it’s not wrong. But it is far from helpful. One particularly bad example is what not to do: A 7 year old girl steals money from her father’s wallet, and the father asks why, and she says that her mother doesn’t have enough money for food. The father responds, “she’s a liar. Don’t listen to her.” The “advice” from the author is to not put the child in the middle of a parental conflict. Umm yes, technically true, but sooooo far from helpful. At the end of the book they have scripts on how to tell your kids you’re getting divorced. The author says repeatedly to “be specific but do not provide details.” That’s oxymoronic.
Only lists What to do BUT NOT HOW to do it
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Not reality
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Audio is terrible. Content is fabulous
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