I Am A Child of Divorce is a proud part of Hope 4 Hurting Kids and we’ve decided to move this resource to that page. This is a great book for children of divorce, but is also beneficial to a wider audience. You should be redirected in the next 10 seconds. If not, please click the link below.
Link
Click here to download the Activity Book.
Background
This activity book was developed and published by Cafcass (Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service) in England. “Every year Cafcass helps over 140,000 children and young people who are going through care or adoption proceedings, or whose parents have separated and are unable to agree about future arrangements for their children. Cafcass is the voice of children in the family courts and helps to ensure that children’s welfare is put first during proceedings.”
How It Works
This pdf activity book is colorfully illustrated and offers kids activities to complete in addition to answering basic questions they might have about their parents’ divorce. This pamphlet offers very basic information to educate and help kids dealing with these difficult circumstances.
Link
Click here to download the board game. (http://www.chatfirst.com.au/pdf/boardgame.pdf)
Unfortunately, this game is no longer available from the original source. We are leaving this page up in hopes that it will be available again at some point in the future.
Background
CHaT First is a website from the Children and Families in Transition Project a partnership between the Centre for Peace, Conflict and Mediation, Hawke research Institute, University of South Australia and Centacare Catholic Family Services (SA), with generous support from the Telstra Foundation. It is full of information for children and teens whose parents have separated or divorced. One of the best resources is a printable board game called the CHaT First Board game.
How It Works
The CHaT First Board Game is a question and answer board game that encourages kids and teens to answer questions from one of four decks of cards. Players take turns rolling the dice and moving along the board. This game is not about winners and losers but about the experience shared together.
Emotion wheels can be great tools for helping you to figure out what your feeling, introduce you to new emotions and help you to figure out what emotions might be underlying why you’re feeling.
This first wheel was created by Dr. Gloria Wilcox who is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in St Petersburg, Florida. It is a great tool for identifying emotions you might be feeling following the dissolution of your parents’ relationship. Emotions are grouped into six broad categories including Sad, Mad, Scared, Peaceful, Joyful and Powerful.
This second wheel is not quite as colorful but includes even more emotion words to broaden your emotion vocabulary. We found it originally on http://makalaonlife.tumblr.com.
If your parents are separated or divorced, there is a good chance you will experience anger at some point in the process. There is nothing wrong with being angry. How we choose to deal with that anger is important. If we keep it all bottled up inside, we will suffer in the long run. Or, if we choose inappropriate outlets for our anger, there can be unwanted consequences.
In order to deal with our anger, and important first step is recognizing when we get angry, how angry we get and what we do to express that anger. That’s why we here I Am A Child of Divorce have developed:
Like a thermometer that measures temperature, you can use the Anger-ometer to measure the level of your anger and your reactions to it. Use the Anger-ometer for a week to track your anger and look for any patterns. Have a trusted friend or adult look at the results with you. Click on the image below for a printable version of the Anger-ometer today.
Divorce is stressful. It is stressful for parents, and it is stressful for kids. One of the best things you can do to reduce stress and other intense emotions (like anger) is to learn some simple activities and breathing techniques. The website consciousdiscipline.com offers this great resource which includes four simple techniques to help you deal with your high levels of stress and calm down. Although the “reminder” graphics were developed for kids, these exercises work great for people of any age!
LINK TO RESOURCE PAGE:
http://consciousdiscipline.com/resources/safe_place_breathing_icons.asp
LINK TO PDF FILE:
http://consciousdiscipline.com/downloads/resources/Safe_Place_Breathing_Icons.pdf
We are please to officially announce the beginning of I Am A Child of Divorce support groups. These groups are intended children of divorce find hope and healing in the aftermath of their parents’ separation or divorce.
Groups are free to participate in and will be conducted entirely online and consist of a weekly introduction to the week’s theme, a video (or videos) to watch, prep work to be done online in preparation for the online chat, a one hour weekly online chat (text not voice) conducted in a private chat room available only to group members, and a recap activity to drive home each week’s theme.
Our first group, a pilot program for teens, will launch the last week of April with the first weekly live chat to be held Thursday, May 2 from 9:00 – 10:00 PM EST, and registration will remain open through April 30th. Registration will be limited and done on a first come first serve basis. Additional programs will be offered in the future.
If you are a teen whose parents who have divorce, no matter what stage of healing you are at, please register for our group today. If you know of teens who could benefit from this program, please forward this information to them.
To find out more information about our groups, click on one of the following links:
From KidsHealth.org, this article is a guide to divorce written specifically for kids. The article explains that “Divorce Is Tough For Everyone,” and includes the important reminders that “Kids Don’t Cause Divorce” and “Kids Can’t Fix Divorce.” If your parents are getting a divorce, or you know someone whose parents are divorced, this is a great resource to find out the basics about divorce.
LINK: http://kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/home_family/divorce.html
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Here at I Am A Child of Divorce, we are pleased to announce the release the newest version of the My Feelings Workbook. Now published in conjunction with Hope 4 Hurting Kids, this book is designed to help kids, teens and adults to name the emotions they are feeling, and recognize what they are feeling.
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