Divorced Dads: 101 Ways to Stay Connected with Your Kids

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Summary: Parenting 101.
Review: Although this parenting guide was written for noncustodial, divorced fathers, it is ultimately intended to benefit the children of divorced parents. Coauthors Nancy Wasson, Ph.D. and Lee Hefner share an interest in helping kids adjust to divorce. "We believe in the power of love and persistence to transform relationships," they write; "we also believe that even small changes a father makes can have major impact on the rapport with his children" (p. 200). Wasson is a therapist who works with children of divorced parents, and Hefner is the noncustodial father of a teenaged daughter. Their book encourages divorced fathers to mend fences with their ex, to upgrade their parenting skills, to communicate in various ways, to support learning, to plan vacations and enjoy recreational activities together, to splurge occasionally, and to teach values by setting an example, in order to stay connected to their children. Sound advice.

G. Merritt

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Summary: DIVORCED DADS, A BETTER WAY TO GO
Review: Divorced Dads: 101 Ways is an elegantly useful book to experience your children and have them remember you in the best of ways. This book offers practical support on how to parent as a divorced dad while encouraging you to live your life more fully with your children. There are practical, useful chapters on communication, parenting skills per se, and how to make learning fun with your children. This book is full of tips as well as encouragement for your sense of fathering in a very loving way. I recommend this book.

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Summary: DIVORCED DADS, A BETTER WAY TO GO
Review: Divorced Dads: 101 Ways is an elegantly useful book to experience your children and have them remember you in the best of ways. This book offers practical support on how to parent as a divorced dad while encouraging you to live your life more fully with your children. There are practical, useful chapters on communication, parenting skills per se, and how to make learning fun with your children. This book is full of tips as well as encouragement for your sense of fathering in a very loving way. I recommend this book.

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Summary: Extremely Useful and easy to read
Review: I am a practicing psychologist working with children and parents, and often working with divorce issues in the family. As such I was delighted to find this book and would like to share my enthusiasm about Divorced Dads: 101 Ways to Stay Connected with Your Kids by Dr. Nancy Wasson and Lee Hefner. Nancy is a therapist herself and both Nancy and Lee readily share their feelings about being divorced parents themselves. Their aim is to provide specific tips to non-custodial parents on how to achieve a meaningful connection with their children while living apart. They achieve their goals by presenting their ideas in a most easy-to-read, practical format packed with useful information, concrete suggestions and helpful stories on almost every page. Even folks who say they are "not much on reading" are likely to benefit from this clear, direct style with highlighted tips and short chapters. Therapists as well as non-custodial parents, or parents away from home much of the time will find helpful ideas in this book. Those who might benefit would include men who are fathers separated from their children by divorce, fathers concerned about their troubled relationship with their children, mothers who wish their divorced husbands stayed more connected to their children and women who are not the custodial parent.
Divorced Dads: 101 Ways to Stay Connected with Your Kids is not a book on general parenting. What it does and does well is to impart a positive and hopeful attitude about being a parent in spite of divorce that helps that parent refocus energy and emotion on the children rather than on the difficulties with the former spouse. Dads who I have recommended read this book have come back to say it was very useful and appreciated.

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Summary: Extremely Useful and easy to read
Review: I am a practicing psychologist working with children and parents, and often working with divorce issues in the family. As such I was delighted to find this book and would like to share my enthusiasm about Divorced Dads: 101 Ways to Stay Connected with Your Kids by Dr. Nancy Wasson and Lee Hefner. Nancy is a therapist herself and both Nancy and Lee readily share their feelings about being divorced parents themselves. Their aim is to provide specific tips to non-custodial parents on how to achieve a meaningful connection with their children while living apart. They achieve their goals by presenting their ideas in a most easy-to-read, practical format packed with useful information, concrete suggestions and helpful stories on almost every page. Even folks who say they are "not much on reading" are likely to benefit from this clear, direct style with highlighted tips and short chapters. Therapists as well as non-custodial parents, or parents away from home much of the time will find helpful ideas in this book. Those who might benefit would include men who are fathers separated from their children by divorce, fathers concerned about their troubled relationship with their children, mothers who wish their divorced husbands stayed more connected to their children and women who are not the custodial parent.
Divorced Dads: 101 Ways to Stay Connected with Your Kids is not a book on general parenting. What it does and does well is to impart a positive and hopeful attitude about being a parent in spite of divorce that helps that parent refocus energy and emotion on the children rather than on the difficulties with the former spouse. Dads who I have recommended read this book have come back to say it was very useful and appreciated.

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Summary: A must-have for any parent looking for ways to stay in touch
Review: My parents divorced when I was very young, and my father did nothing to sustain a relationship with me. In my opinion, he was not a good parent. I was much too young to continue our relationship on my own. I needed my father, but he quickly faded from my life.

Children need their non-custodial parents as much as they do their main caregivers. There are many ways for separated and divorced parents to continue their relationship with their children. In the book, "Divorced Dads: 101 Ways to Stay Connected With Your Kids," those parents not living at home will learn many different ways to continue bonding with their children. Even though this book was written primarily for divorced dads, I believe all families can benefit from its contents! For example, parents who are away on business or other trips will find different ways to stay in touch while across the miles. This book contains many example family situations.

MyParenTime.com highly recommends this book -- from simple ideas such as using the telephone to stay connected, to more creative tips such as playing interactive Internet games, this book will provide great ways to stay in touch with your children. What you'll learn in this book, you'll treasure forever in your relationship with your children.

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Summary: Divorced Dads: 101 Ways to Stay Connected with Your Kids
Review: The only thing I didn't like about this book was the title because I thought it was too limiting. This is an awesome book for anyone that wants to be closer connected with their kids or any other human being. Clever ideas and thought provoking suggestions. A wonderful book!

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Summary: Divorced Dads: 101 Ways to Stay Connected with Your Kids
Review: The only thing I didn't like about this book was the title because I thought it was too limiting. This is an awesome book for anyone that wants to be closer connected with their kids or any other human being. Clever ideas and thought provoking suggestions. A wonderful book!

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Summary: Divorced Dads: 101 Ways to Stay Connected with Your Kids
Review: This timely book by Wasson and Hefner speaks a vital message to non-custodial fathers giving positive direction to them of how to nurture their relationships with their children. We know that children need a healthy forever relationship with BOTH parents.......an outcome that is not the norm in divorced families. The authors of this book empathize with the hardship of being the father, and step by step wisely pave his way to overcoming common obstacles to meeting his children's needs and receiving their love. As a therapist, and supervisor of therapists, who has worked with children and families for over 25 years (and as a divorced parent myself), I have experienced the overwhelming pain and sadness of children losing the active participation of a parent in their lives. This book clearly shows how to prevent this heartbreak from happening, as well as how to mend broken bridges. Who are the winners? The children of divorce, the non-custodial fathers, the mothers who have custody, the extended family, and the larger community. Read this book, and give it to those you love who need the guidance.

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Summary: Divorced Dads: 101 Ways to Stay Connected with Your Kids
Review: This timely book by Wasson and Hefner speaks a vital message to non-custodial fathers giving positive direction to them of how to nurture their relationships with their children. We know that children need a healthy forever relationship with BOTH parents.......an outcome that is not the norm in divorced families. The authors of this book empathize with the hardship of being the father, and step by step wisely pave his way to overcoming common obstacles to meeting his children's needs and receiving their love. As a therapist, and supervisor of therapists, who has worked with children and families for over 25 years (and as a divorced parent myself), I have experienced the overwhelming pain and sadness of children losing the active participation of a parent in their lives. This book clearly shows how to prevent this heartbreak from happening, as well as how to mend broken bridges. Who are the winners? The children of divorce, the non-custodial fathers, the mothers who have custody, the extended family, and the larger community. Read this book, and give it to those you love who need the guidance.