Parenting After Divorce: Resolving Conflicts and Meeting Your Children's Needs

by Philip M. Stahl

Book Overview

"Your divorce doesn't have to damage your children..., " Stahl assures, " ... especially if you limit your children's exposure to your conflicts." He knows parents are not perfect, and he uses that knowledge to show imperfect parents how to settle their differences in the best interests of the children. This revised and updated second edition features ideas from the latest research, more information on long-distance parenting, dealing with the courts,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1886230846
• ISBN13: 9781886230842
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Impact
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

The only book parents after divorce need!

As a child custody evaluator and parent educator, I keep a list of books that are helpful to parents in these tough times. I just re-did my list and moved this book to the #1 spot! It is clearly written and dispenses practical, wise advice in a way that is easy to read and digest. A must buy!

Great Wisdom and Practical Advice

Dr. Phillip Stahl's Parenting After Divorce: A Guide to Resolving Conflicts and Meeting Your Children's Needs contains great wisdom about managing the difficult task of co-parenting after divorce. Dr. Stahl offers practical advice, sensitively communicated. Drawing on his own extensive experience counseling patients and his mastery of the literature of child development and the impact of divorce on children, Dr. Stahl's book provides an accessible road map to the millions of Moms and Dads who strive to provide the best parenting for their children after divorce.

Down to Earth Advice for Divorced Parents

Dr. Stahl presents practical, easy to understand advice for divorced parents. He takes complicated terms and makes them easy to understand. He gently helps parents take a look at what they are doing to create problems so they do not just blame the other parent. Most importantly, he tells parents how to gain control of their life for their children's sake.In addition, he presents the child's perspective so parents can re-direct their focus to truly meet their children's needs.

Parenting After DIvorce

This book is a very practical guide and an easy read for all parents who are separated or divorced. It's non-judgemental and gives real life examples with statements by children that are poignant and descriptive.