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10 Tips for Making Divorce Easier for Your Children

Divorce is never easy. Every member of a family that's breaking up has challenges to deal with, but divorce is especially difficult for the children involved. Kids often see a divorce as the end to the only world they've ever known. They are often overwhelmed by a sense of loss and uncertainty. It's important to help make the transition that children have to go through as painless and easy as possible. Below are 10 tips to help ease your kids into their new lives.

• First, children often assume that they're the reason for the divorce. Make sure that you emphasize continually that your children were in no way responsible for the divorce and that it's not their fault in any manner. This helps them understand that neither parent will resent them for the divorce.
• While children are often curious for the reasons behind the divorce, especially older children, it's important to not blame your ex-spouse to your children. While the marriage is no longer intact, you're both still the parents of your children, and playing the blame game only serves to undermine the other parent in your children's eyes. The best way to handle children's curiosity is to establish a "shared story" with your ex-spouse, giving only the basic details behind your separation, while sparing your children all of the details they really don't need to know.

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