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  • 170. Holiday Highs and Lows: Separated Parents

    Christmas holidays can be the best of times or the worst of times. For many, it’s both—a season of great food, family, and gifts mixed with enough stress to push you right over the edge. Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays tend to magnify both the blessings and the problems in our lives....
    Posted to Dawson's Blog by Dawson on 12-03-2010
    Tags: Divorce, Parents, Step-Parents, Parenthood, Christmas, Holiday, Separation, stress

  • Why are children most often the ones that suffer the most in a divorce?

    When parents divorce, the children are often the ones that suffer most. This is troubling because the children are the ones who had the least to do with the divorce in the first place. In other words, children of divorced parents suffer because of the inability of the parents to work out their differences...
    Posted to Divorce by PreacherboyReborn on 02-23-2010
    Tags: Divorce

  • Where can a person find more information on divorce?

    1. Focus on the Family 2. American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy 3. McAllister, Dawson and Clark Albright, Making Peace at Home, 1996.
    Posted to Divorce by PreacherboyReborn on 02-22-2010
    Tags: Divorce

  • What about children whose parents that are considering divorce?

    1. The child needs to talk to their parents about their concerns in a calm manner. Not yelling at them, but honestly telling them why they are concerned and how the concern is affecting them. 2. They need to find someone that they can trust to talk to about their feelings. 3. Many parents may be under...
    Posted to Divorce by PreacherboyReborn on 02-22-2010
    Tags: Divorce

  • How should a child respond when their parents divorce?

    1. They need to talk to someone about their situation. Talking about it will ease the tension and anxiety about the thoughts that they are having. Some good places to look for this person is school or church. 2. A parent’s divorce is not the fault of the child and the divorce was unfair to the...
    Posted to Divorce by PreacherboyReborn on 02-22-2010
    Tags: Divorce

  • 128. Dealing with Divorce Pt. 3

    Going through your parents’ divorce is one of the most tragic experiences you can go through. Unfortunately, it’s become such a common occurrence, it is easy to think you’re supposed to act like it’s no big deal, even though you feel like you’re dying inside. In an earlier...
    Posted to Dawson's Blog by Dawson on 01-15-2010
    Tags: Divorce, Parents, Step-Parents, Dealing with Divorce

  • 127. Dealing with Divorce Pt. 2

    It’s so hard to be honest with ourselves and others about the effects we feel when our parents break-up. That is because our parent’s divorce is devastating. We naturally put up walls, which are filled with denial, silence, and a certain distance between us and others. Yet, these techniques...
    Posted to Dawson's Blog by Dawson on 12-18-2009
    Tags: Divorce, Parents, Step-Parents, Dealing with Divorce

  • 126. Dealing with Divorce

    For a long time I have wanted to blog about what to do when your family is broken up by divorce. I have taken literally thousands of calls from teenagers and young adults whose whole lives have been rearranged by their parent’s divorce. Getting over your parent’s divorce is never easy, in...
    Posted to Dawson's Blog by Dawson on 12-11-2009
    Tags: Divorce, Parents, Step-Parents, Dealing with Divorce
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