How To Prepare Your Child For Divorce

How do I prepare my child for my divorce?

Preparing children for divorce is very important. What's important is that you're prepared. That conversation shouldn't happen unless the parents have figured out what their plan is for the child. They should tell the children together. They should be upbeat about the rearrangement. They should explain to them that both parents still love them. Children will automatically think, one: "I caused it." Very few parents really understand the depth of what I'm saying right now; that children will often think, "If I had been a better boy," "If I had been a better girl," "If I hadn't made my parents mad that night they'd still be together. Children universally want their parents to stay together. No matter how horrible one of them is or both of them are together, they still want them together. That's pretty standard.