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Summary: Find something else
Review: Don't buy this book. It was written in - when? It reads like it was written in the 50's although I think it was in the 70's. It's really a terrible book, wasn't helpful at all even though a counselor recommended it. What a total waste of money it was for me.
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Summary: Find something else
Review: Don't buy this book. It was written in - when? It reads like it was written in the 50's although I think it was in the 70's. It's really a terrible book, wasn't helpful at all even though a counselor recommended it. What a total waste of money it was for me.
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Summary: Honesty is the best policy
Review: I noticed this book because of my own miserable childhood.
No adult would like to tell me the truth about my parient's divorce even themselves.There were so many questions in my mind.I have wasted so many time to adjust it. The teachers never taught you how to deal with a divorced family and a sad father. There was no book about it. So, we are helpless.
When I saw this book,I felt so amazingly. This was a book written for us and truely helped us.
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Summary: Steps outlined to determine parental love is outrageous!
Review: I purchased this book for my nine year old granddaughter to help her with any questions she might have about her parent's divorce. I was appalled when I picked the book up and read it. The chapter on how to tell if your father loves you was undescribable. How damaging this could be to a child who is already so bewildered and confused about their parents divorce to read if their father is consistently late to pick them up, it could mean he doesn't love them. Love and its reassuring and unconditional aspects are what helps children of all ages survive the emotional scarring of a divorce. I wanted to contact the author and the publisher and scream at them. I'm just glad that I read the book first before giving to my grandchild. They should be ashamed!!!!
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Summary: It influenced me to become a psychologist!!
Review: I read the book 16 years ago and it influenced me to become a psychologist. I even mentioned the book and Dr. Gardner
in my application essay for graduate school. The book was
easy to understand as a child and I still recommend the book
to my children-patients. I highly recommend the book to
parents and children who are dealing with divorce issues.
The book also contains great illustrations. No book has had
greater influence on my life and career
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Summary: Tells it like it is
Review: This book is fantastically un-PC; so much that it verges on shocking. Those who want some bland and reassuring pap for their nearest/dearest child of divorce should look elsewhere. I know nothing of the author biographically, but I can tell he's seen a lot of unhappy children. He's seen them lied to by adults whose intentions spanned the gamut of good and bad, and seen that misdirection and ephemism hurt children more than directness ever could. In other words, Gardner respects children and understands their need for plain talk. This book advocates for them. Parents may be offended. But divorces occur more often where fundamental tenets of healthy relationships aren't respected, and things we rarely talk about are done to kids as a matter of course. Kids get used as adult-companionship substitutes. Kids get used as weapons against the Ex, or meal tickets. Parents drift off after the divorce and never drift back again. Parents fawn and drool on birthdays or Christmas and fail to call the rest of the year. To Gardner, this suggests a parent who does not love their child. What does it suggest to you? The current vogue is pad all this over and "be reassuring," but Gardner prefers to let them in on the truth -- believing truth is something even children can eventually come to terms with.
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Summary: A beatiful way to make hard situations easy
Review: What a talent !
Every young reader will know for sure that his mother & father is still his loving Mom & Dad even after they are divorced.
This book should be translated to many languages.
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Summary: Disturbing
Review: When I read the introduction, I had high hopes for this book. However, the book has some very disturbing parts. For instance, talking about where children will live when parents separate, Gardner brings up that some children end up in boarding school and foster homes. I was skeptical about that, but continued on. When he said that many foster homes are bad, I wondered if he considered what kinds of things he was telling these children. From my experience, children of divorce have enough fears and ghosts. They don't need an "expert" putting more fears into their heads. I was also upset by the notion that he suggested that some parents don't love their children. While he may be correct, I don't feel that his planting the idea in their minds is going to make them feel any more comfortable with their parents divorcing. I did not allow my child to read this. With all her raw emotions, I felt it would be abusive on my part to expose her to new, unnecessary fears.
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