Putting Children First, JoAnne PedroCarroll
Putting Children First, JoAnne PedroCarroll
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Putting Children First
Proven Parenting Strategies for Helping Children Thrive Through Divorce

Author: JoAnne Pedro-Carroll

Narrator: Karen Saltus

Unabridged: 11 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 02/01/2014


Synopsis

An internationally renowned authority on children and divorce reveals the latest research-based strategies for helping children survive and thrive before, during, and long after their parents divorce.

The breakup of a family can have an enduring impact on children. But as Dr. JoAnne Pedro-Carroll explains with clarity and compassion in this powerful book, parents can positively alter the immediate and long-term effects of divorce on their children. The key is proven, emotionally intelligent parenting strategies that promote children's emotional health, resilience, and ability to lead satisfying lives.

Over the past three decades, Pedro-Carroll has worked with families in transition, conducted research, and developed and directed award- winning, court-endorsed programs that have helped thousands of families navigate divorce and its aftermath. Now she shares practical, research- based advice that helps parents:

• gain a deeper understanding of what their children are experiencing

• develop emotionally intelligent parenting strategies with the critical combination of boundless love and appropriate limits on behavior

• reduce conflict with a former spouse and protect children from conflict's damaging effects

• learn what recent brain research reveals about stress and children's developing capabilities

Putting Children First delivers a positive vision for a future of hope and healing.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ellen on September 06, 2011

If you are a divorcing or separating parent who wants excellent, research-based information non how to help your child or children through the divorce process and after, and you want your information in one place, this is the book for you. An added bonus - the book is written in plain English with a......more

Goodreads review by Julia on April 07, 2017

Frustrating and out-dated in many ways. I got irritated when the author even dared to try and talk the reader out of divorce, claiming that it'd be easier on the kids. There's a lot of focus on the negative effects of divorce, when what I was looking for was a book to help me make the best of the si......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on July 24, 2016

Dr. Pedro-Carroll's book is a no-nonsense, common sense, research-based, yet, compassionate handbook that centers on children's best interests without coddling them. I only wish this gem had been available to families throughout my 35 years of teaching.......more

Goodreads review by Magda on February 01, 2023

I recommend the book to better understand the impact you have on people around you. Especially children, they see you - words, actions, attitude, tone of voice. They make adjustments, form beliefs based on what they are exposed to. A major take away: for the child divorced parents are a family, they......more

Goodreads review by drowningmermaid on March 04, 2019

Heartbreaking and depressing, but practical.......more