Books for Parents
Legal:
- Divorce without court (Katherine Stoner)
- Collaborative Law (Pauline Tesler)
- A client’s guide to a collaborative divorce (Gillian Bishop)
- Which : Divorce and Splitting Up (Imogen Clout) – legal & financial guide
Supporting your children:
- How to talk so your kids will listen (Faber and Mazlish)
- Putting Children First (Karen and Nick Woodall)
- We’re still family (Constance Aurons)
- Caught in the Middle (Anne Charlish)
- Parenting: what really counts (Susan Golombok)
- Helping your kids to cope with divorce in the Sandcastles Way
(Gary Neuman)
- Divorce Book for Parents (Vicki Lansky)
- Help your children cope with your divorce (Relate)
- What about the children? (Julie Lynn Evans)
- Parenting Apart (Christina McGhee)
- Lost Children: Guide for separating parents (Penny Cross)
Emotional:
- How to have a healthy divorce (Relate)
- Moving on: breaking up without breaking down (Relate)
Step families:
- Step Parents’ Parachute (Flora McEvedy)
- Step Families (Relate)
Moving on / Rebuilding:
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: (Stephen R. Covey)
- Starting Again (Relate)
Books for Children
Books to read with very young children:
- Divorce without court (Katherine Stoner)
- Dinosaur’s divorce (Laurene Krasny Brown and Marc Brown)
- Two homes (Claire Masurel)
- When mom and dad separate (Marge Heegaard)
- Two of Everything (Babette Cole)
- It’s not your fault Koko Bear (Vicki Lansky)
- Was it the chocolate pudding? (Sandra Levins)
- How do I feel about my parent’s divorce? (Julia Cole)
Under 10:
- Lemons to Lemonade (DVD and work book – Christina McGhee)
- What do you know about divorce and separation? (Pete Sanders and Steve Myers)
Young teenagers:
- The Divorce Help book for kids (Cynthia MacGregor)
- Mom’s house, Dad’s house when parents separate ( Isolina Ricci)
- Google Eyes (Anne Fine)
- Step by wicked step (Anne Fine)
- The Worry Website (Jacqueline Wilson)
- Help my family is driving me crazy (Kathryn Lamb)
- Flour Babies (Anne Fine)
Teenagers website resource: