How do I help my 8 Year old having meltdowns before visits with his dad?
This may not be the kind of advice you want to hear, but I promise you, you and your children will recover from the trauma of divorce sooner if you can:
1. Validate their feelings.
2. Children perceive time differently from adults. Help Your Child Perceive the amount of time involved in terms that they can understand.
3. Schedule something positive to take place together after the visit.
4. Acknowledge the effort your child is making to do what he must do in this situation.
5. Make sure they know that they are not hurting you or betraying you by going to the visit and that you will be just fine.
6. Don't pry for information from them afterward.
7. When they do want to talk, be ready for them, listen attentively, and respond.
Dr. Jodi Peary
Intuitive Psychologist, Hypnotherapist, Former Lawyer.
Dr. Jodi Peary guides individuals through significant transitions such as divorce, divorce recovery, after losses due to the death of loved ones, changes in one's own health, and with coming to terms with new life stages. Combining proven research-based psychological strategies alongside more intuitive teachings and hypnotherapy, I facilitate your deeper connection with yourself, arming you with the self-awareness needed to improve your health and to help you discover a more meaningful relationship with yourself and others. My workshops and coaching sessions will lead you to consciously align your mind, heart, emotions, soul, and your body. In alignment you will experience mental, physical and emotional well being.
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