Putting Children First: a handbook for separated parents

Karen and Nick Woodall. Published by Piatkus. ISBN 0-7499-2804-2

Putting Children First, written by Karen and Nick Woodall, is a brand new book that helps parents to manage the changes that come as a result of family separation so that the impact on children is reduced and they are able to achieve their full potential.

Putting Children First offers insights, tools and case studies to show how it is possible to manage family separation without putting children at greater risk of suffering poorer outcomes and reduced life-chances. Whatever parents are going through, Putting Children First can help them to deal with it and move on, knowing that they are better equipped to make the right choices for their children.

 

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The book gives parents the tools and strategies to help them move away from conflict and towards building co-operative parenting relationships after family separation.

 

It helps parents to deal with the challenges that family separation throws up, to understand what children are likely to be experiencing and to provide an atmosphere in which children are helped to cope with and adjust to the new circumstances.

 

Putting Children First is for both parents, regardless of whether they provide the main day-to-day care or not, and deals with the different family relationships. It offers strategies and skills like:

 

  • Parenting Plans

  • Scripted Phone Calls

  • Parenting Meetings

  • Co-operative Parenting Contracts

 

As authors and family practitioners, we don’t expect parents to continue to like each other – we know that in the majority of cases this is completely unrealistic – but we do know that it is possible to build a new parenting relationship that puts the needs and wellbeing of your children above the anger and sadness that you may be experiencing as a result of the ending of your adult relationship.

 

Putting Children First offers you insights, tools and case studies to show how it is possible to manage family separation without putting your children at a greater risk of suffering poorer outcomes and reduced life-chances. Whatever you are going through, Putting Children First can help you deal with it and move on, knowing that you are better equipped to make the right choices for your children.

 

‘quite simply, the best book on separation

that we have ever read’

Fatherhood Institute