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10 Tips to Help Your Child
through Divorce

9. Spend time with caring friends. Having your own supportive network can protect your child from becoming your confidant
and feeling responsible for your emotional well being. It can also give you a higher frustration tolerance for the normal,
everyday things kids do. Spend time with friends who will help feed your spiritual side. This is the time to feel loved and connected with those who care about you.

10. Read together and talk about a book on divorce for children. This will help you explain important facts to your child and
help your child formulate questions they might otherwise not have words for.

© 1997, Lois V. Nightingale, Ph.D.

Rights of Children of Divorce
By Lois V. Nightingale, Ph.D

17. Participate in sports, special classes or clubs that support their unique interests, and have adults that will get them to these events, on time without guilt or shame.

18. Contact the absent parent and have phone conversations without eavesdropping or tape-recording.

19. Ask questions and have them answered respectfully with age-appropriate answers that do not include blaming or belittlements of anyone.

20. Be exposed to both parents' religious ideas (without shame), hobbies, interests and tastes in food.

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