Helping Children deal with the grief from the divorce
Sara Hadgraft, the Executive Director from Sparrow Counseling, did a podcast with Seth Nelson on “How to split the Toaster”. She’s a licensed marriage and family therapist and a licensed professional counselor who guides families through the pain and disappointment of divorce. It’s a difficult process, but it’s important to learn how to talk to your kids so they don’t feel that it’s their fault that you’re getting divorced.
Sara has a list – “7 WAYS TO HELP YOUR CHILDREN GRIEVE YOUR DIVORCE” – that Seth references. These points are important tools you can use as you talk with your own children. What’s more important to realize, though, is that every kid is different. Every family is different. They all require you to do the work to figure out how to help each one.
That’s also important to remember – you will handle your four-year-old differently than your 11-year-old differently than your 17-year-old. And it’s also not a quick fix. This is help you’ll be providing for years as they grow up and become adults.
So tune in to this conversation. There’s a lot of helpful information here that you can use as you create those conversations with your children about your own divorce.
If you need help walking your children through the grief of your divorce, call Sparrow Counseling for a free 15-minute consult to see if we can help.