Divorce: Minimizing The Emotional Toll On Your Kids

Your Words and Actions Make a Difference

What you'll learn
Students will Learn How to Help Their Kids Deal with the Emotions of Divorce
Students will Learn How Mindful Words and Actions Reduce the Emotional Toll of Divorce on Their Kids
Students will Learn How to Recognize Parental Alienation and How to Deal with It
Students will Learn How to Decide to Coparent or Parallel Parent
Requirements
No prerequisites.
Description
This course comes from my experience of going through 2 divorces with kids and handling hundreds of divorces with children involved in my 20 years of practicing family law.  I have seen the emotional harm parents' words and actions cause their kids during and after a divorce.  Even if your divorce is complete, you can benefit from many of the ideas in tis course.In this course parents who are considering divorce, divorcing, or who have divorced will learn how to minimize the emotional toll of divorce on their kids.  Divorce is stressful for sure, but you have the power to lower the stress level for your kids.  Ths course helps parents understand the emotional stages of divorce and how to help their kids handle those emotions. It shows parents how to reduce the toll on their kids through their words and actions and how to better communicate with their ex to lower the tension.  The course also looks at parental alientation and how to counter it and helps students learn whether they can coparent with their ex or whether they will have to parallel parent.  Divorce is always stressful for kids, but parents have the power to reduce that stress.  Parents' choices based on looking at what they say and do through the prisim of the effect their words and actions will have on their kids will help their kids.This course covers:The 5 Stages of Divorce and How to Help Your Kids Deal with Those EmotionsWhen and How to Tell the Kids About the DivorceMindful Communication with the KidsMindful ActionsSetting Boundaries with Your ExCommunicating with Your Ex to Lower the TensionRecognizing and Countering Parental AlienationDetermining if Copareting is WorkableStudents who finish this course will be well equipped to help their kids through their divorce.

Overview

Section 1: Course Introduction

Lecture 1 Course Introduction

Section 2: Dealing with the Emotions of Divorce

Lecture 2 Introduction

Lecture 3 Why are My Kids So Emotional?

Lecture 4 Helping Your Kids Cope

Section 3: Mindful Words and Actions

Lecture 5 Introduction

Lecture 6 Telling the Kids

Lecture 7 Using Mindful Words with Your Kids

Lecture 8 Mindful Actions

Section 4: Minldful Communication with Your Ex

Lecture 9 Introduction

Lecture 10 Setting Boundaries

Lecture 11 Communicating with Your Ex

Section 5: Identifying and Dealing with Parental Alienation

Lecture 12 Introduction

Lecture 13 Defining Parental Alienation

Lecture 14 Factors Contributing to Parental Alienation

Lecture 15 Alienating Behaviors

Lecture 16 Parental Alienation: Signs and Tactics

Lecture 17 Counteracting Parental Alienation

Section 6: The Coparenting Decision

Lecture 18 Introduction

Lecture 19 The Coparenting Decision

Section 7: Wrapup

Lecture 20 Wrapup

Parents going through divorce, contemplating divorce, or who have divorced.