When My Parents Forgot How to Be Friends (Let's Talk About It!)

Young children become confused and hurt when their parents constantly argue, then decide to divorce. This sensitively written book assures boys and girls that children are in no way responsible for their parents' inability to get along together. It lets kids know that although one parent chooses to move away from the home, both parents continue to love their little boy or girl. Both Mom and Dad will continue to spend happy times with them. Even very young children have concerns and anxieties, and Let's Talk About It! books are written and illustrated especially for them. Parents are advised to read these books aloud while their preschooler listens and looks at illustrations of the boys and girls in each story. Many children in early grades will be able to read the stories for themselves. Let's Talk About It! books encourage children to explore their feelings, and then to speak openly about things that trouble them.

The purpose of this book is to acknowledge some of the concerns and anxieties your child may experience when going through a divorce in the family. Allowing your child the opportunity to explore his/her feelings and fears is the first step in the process of healing. Giving children the chance to heal by addressing some of these issues will encourage them to become a survivor of separation and divorce, rather than remaining a victim.

Use this book as a tool to initiate dialogue and to stimulate communication between you and your children
Remind your children that they are not responsible for the difficulties within the family and that their behavior had nothing to do with the decision to separate