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Split Survival Kit

"A much-needed support for children facing family break up"

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10 Steps For Coping With Your Parents' Separation

There has been a real gap in the market for a book like this and written by an expert child psychologist and children’s author team, it strikes exactly the right note of being friendly and engaging, helped by the lively layout and illustrations, with being informative, sensitive, and honest. The motif throughout of this experience being a difficult journey to negotiate and you need to ensure you have the psychological tools to survive that journey, is very successful.

It has ten chapters forming the ten-step guide to coping with the trauma of your family falling apart, taking the reader from the first stages of denial and the natural desire for everything to stay the same, through to how to cope with new partners and their children and the practical difficulties of life in two houses. Each chapter ends with a list of survival kit essential takeaways and a positive affirmation to repeat, having talked through what the child reader might be experiencing and explaining both the feelings they might have and the feelings of those around them.

The positive strategies outlined will be empowering and supportive. There are real life stories in every chapter to enhance the message that they are not the first to go through this and that none of it is their fault. The glossary at the end of words and phrases that they might hear and explanations of the roles of arbitrator and social worker etc are very useful, as is the list of other resources and places to find help. Sadly, this is a book that every school needs to have available and will be useful reading for every adult involved in childcare as well, of course, as giving helpful advice to parents about how to make things better for their children in this situation.

Joy Court

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