Make time for your children
- Spending time with your children is an excellent way to get your mind off of the separation or divorce; more importantly, it helps you re-bond with your kids and it reassures them
- Do activities that interest both you and the children, or alternate between parent's-choice and kid's-choice
- Read books to younger children; go for bike rides or walks; play a board game or card game; have a picnic in the park; go to a movie – whatever you do together, try to make it fun and/or relaxing
- If you have more than one child, try to have some one-on-one time with each child on a regular basis; take advantage of the opportunities as they arise (when one child is at a birthday party or visiting a friend, you and the other child can go to the park)
Look after yourself
Be consistent with rules/boundaries
Keep routines the same
Allow children to make choices
Let “kids be kids”
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