What 10 Things Divorced Parent Should Do To Promote Positive Child Adjustment?

Written by Ruben Francia


The effects of recent enlargement in divorce rates are negative effects. Divorced children are more probably to get pregnant as teenagers, drop out of high school, abuse drugs and have aggressively emotional and behavioral problems, which lead to social problems. Some children decide to go out of their home when their parents separate each other, and subsequently they become homeless children. They do not have good opportunities to find a job due to shortage of education. Consequently, crime may likely berepparttar end result.

As parent, one of your top priorities is to reduce this negative effect and help your children have positive divorce adjustment. Here arerepparttar 110652 10 things you should do to promote positive divorce child adjustment.

1. Do encourage your children to talk about how they feel.

The sure way to help your children adjust to divorce is for you to know what they feel. So let your children know that they can openly talk to you about their feelings of your separation or divorce. Keep lines of communication open and answer all questions aboutrepparttar 110653 changes. Make sure your children feels like they can ask you questions and get answers about whyrepparttar 110654 divorce happened and what to expect.

2. Reassure children that everything will be ok but just different.

Children are invariably frightened and confused by divorce. Provide extra hugs and kisses and tell your child that you and other adults will always be near to love and protect.

3. Do stay involve in your children's life.

Custodial and non-custodial parent should stay involve in their children's life. Children may interpret lack of involvement as rejection. Often, they thinkrepparttar 110655 parent who is not involved in their life loves them less. If your children are to adjust well to your divorce, nurturingrepparttar 110656 parent-child relationship is paramount. Spend special time with your children, have fun together and continually express your love for your children.

4. Do keep your ex-spouse from becoming an ex-parent.

Many non-custodial parents, who typically are fathers, fail to stay involved with their children afterrepparttar 110657 divorce. This is unfortunate as children's adjustment is enhanced by a positive, active relationship with both parents.

If you arerepparttar 110658 custodial parent, you should encouragerepparttar 110659 involvement ofrepparttar 110660 non-custodial parent even though it takes extra effort if a lot of anger is still present. It is a time when you must separate your spousal relationship from your parenting relationship. This is hard, but it is possible. You must try not to "direct" your spouse's parenting patterns and concentrate your efforts on smoothing access.

5. Do not argue with your ex-spouse in front of your child.

Children exposed to conflict are more likely to have behavioral and emotional disturbances, suffer social and interpersonal problems, and show impairment in their thought and reasoning processes. Experts sayrepparttar 110661 amount of conflictrepparttar 110662 child witnesses during and immediately after divorce is a crucial factor in his or her adjustment.

When parents show better emotional adjustment afterrepparttar 110663 divorce, so dorepparttar 110664 children. Children show much less anxiety, insecurity and distress when parents are able to argue in a proper manner, reach an agreement, and stick torepparttar 110665 compromise.

6. Do keep routines consistent as much as possible.

Conquer the Five Most Common Fears about Your Wedding Ceremony

Written by Chris Simeral


Conquerrepparttar Five Most Common Fears about Your Wedding Ceremony

It’s safe to say that of allrepparttar 110651 important events in your lifetime, your wedding day is certain to be right up there with those that arerepparttar 110652 most meaningful. And throughoutrepparttar 110653 entire wedding day –repparttar 110654 preparations,repparttar 110655 ceremony,repparttar 110656 reception, andrepparttar 110657 wedding night –repparttar 110658 moment when you recite your wedding vows to each other isrepparttar 110659 most meaningful. It is a time that you will remember forever, exactly as it felt: a sublime, dreamlike fantastical moment, when everyone significant to you is watching as you join in wedlock withrepparttar 110660 most important individual in your life.

Conquering Your Fears

Since this is such a unique and central moment to your romantic life, you’re probably wondering how it is that you’ll makerepparttar 110661 experience better than that 10th grade public-speaking assignment where you blanked out halfway through and fainted in front of all of your peers. Begin by telling yourself that it is perfectly natural to feel nervous when speaking in public. Moreover, not everyone is born with perfect public-speaking skills that accurately demonstrate what they feel in their hearts. However, fortunately forrepparttar 110662 majority of us, these things can be learned.

Of course, being well-prepared and armed with wedding vows you know arerepparttar 110663 absolute best they could possibly be is one ofrepparttar 110664 easiest ways to overcome these fears. How do I know? Becauserepparttar 110665 home-study course I put together, The Ultimate Wedding Vow Toolkit, has helped hundreds of couples takerepparttar 110666 fear out of their wedding ceremony by giving themrepparttar 110667 tools they need to write truly amazing wedding vows. You can find out more aboutrepparttar 110668 kit at http://www.weddingvowtoolkit.com.

But beyond that, when you think logically about each of these fears, you’ll realize there is nothing that cannot be overcome with a bit of care, technique, and practice. Let’s take a realistic look at these five incredibly common worries. In a few minutes, you’ll see that none of them are likely to spoil your ceremony.

Common Fear #1: Freezing Up

This is a direct result of being excessively nervous. Therefore, it’s important to come up with some calming techniques that will help you to keep cool. It’s only natural to be a bit nervous. In fact,repparttar 110669 added rush from being a little onrepparttar 110670 anxious side can actually help you to speak better and with added feeling. The best technique that you can give yourself is breathing. Most often, when we are overly frightened, we either breathe much too quickly or we hold our breath. Therefore, as you’re keeping yourself calm, concentrate on breathing smoothly, neither too fast or too slow, but regularly, in through your nose and out through your mouth. Practice a few times in advance, especially in other situations that you’ve found a bit stressful inrepparttar 110671 past. You’ll be surprised at what an enormous difference something as simple as breathing can do for you.

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