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Putting Children First:
Proven Parenting Strategies for
Helping Children Thrive
Through
Divorce
By JoAnne Pedro-Carroll, Ph.D.
Publication: Avery/Penguin, 2010
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NAPPA Gold Award, 2010,
National Parenting
Publications Awards |
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2010
Mom's Choice Awards®
Gold Recipient
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Parenting is a lifelong
process, whether you have a life
partner or not. While that
prospect can be particularly
daunting when you’re in the
throes of divorce, the process
of working through these hard
times and painful adjustments
gives parents and children
opportunities to develop strong,
loving relationships that can
deepen over time.
Putting Children First reveals
the feelings that children who
are caught in the middle of
their parents’ painful conflict
experience deeply but often hide
and helps parents interpret
their words and behaviors at
each developmental level.
Drawing on extensive research
and a depth of clinical
experience, Dr. Pedro-Carroll
gives parents proven strategies
for managing their conflict,
creating parenting plans that
protect children, and adopting
parenting strategies that help
children to make healthy
adjustments to family changes.
She offers hope, compassion, and
understanding to parents,
helping them turn adversity into
parenting partnerships focused
on their children’s best
interests.
Here’s just some of what you’ll
learn in Putting Children First:
- How children express the
stress of divorce at various
developmental stages and how
to understand their words
and behaviors
- How to talk to children
of different ages about
separation, divorce, and
family changes in ways that
provide reassurance and
stability and prepare them
for big changes
- How parents can reduce
conflict between themselves,
promote their own
well-being, and protect
children from ongoing
animosity
- What recent behavioral
and brain research
contributes to our
understanding of how to help
children through difficult
times
- What emotionally
intelligent parenting
practices parents can
adopt—balancing abiding love
and very clear limits on
their behavior—to help their
children grow up strong and
resilient.
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reviews
"I have known JoAnne
Pedro-Carroll personally
and professionally for
over 20 years. She
clearly is one of the
country's top divorce
experts. She stands
alone in her combination
of ground breaking
research, keen clinical
insights, and unmatched
sensitivity to
children's struggles
through divorce.
Her reputation alone
will garner great
interest in the book.
Her knowledge and
emotional understanding
will surely keep this
book on the shelves of
divorced parents,
therapists, lawyers, and
bookstores for years to
come."
-Robert E. Emery,
Professor of Psychology,
University of Virginia,
author of The Truth
About Children and
Divorce: Dealing with
the Emotions so You and
Your Children Can Thrive
Read Jennifer Whitten’s
review on
Psych Central.
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