Podcast #25 - Divorced Dad Minute - Divorce 101: Step 6: Enrichment

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Enrichment is the next step of Divorce 101:

STEP #6: Enrichment - Consult a child psychologist. They can assist with parenting enrichment & a parenting plan. This will heal your child from the impact of the divorce by understanding, appreciating and learning how you can best meet your child's developmental needs.

Don't you think that's important?
 
Children go through the “death of their family” and they have very little understanding of what's going on and they need your support even more.  Remember, this is the death of their family as they've known it. And a child psychologist can help you understand where your child is out with that.
 
Parenting enrichment equals a healthier child during divorce. Why? Because you are looking at what is happening with your child from a developmental perspective. For example, if Dad was the baseball coach, and used to do the math homework and read to his child at bedtime, certain physiological and cognitive skills are being stimulated.

This stimulation in turn produces growth in an attribute / skill within the developing child. For example throwing a baseball utilizes hand to eye co-ordination skills, gross motor skills, fine motor skills to name a few. mathematics engages analytical and logical brain functioning. Listening and engagement during reading develops cognitive and articulation functioning.

If Mom isn’t doing these things, then there is a deficit for the child, which will reflect itself in terms of educational reports, the mood of the child who is missing the companionship during bedtime routines, and the camaraderie between father and son in the setting of a baseball team the son belongs to which the father coaches.

Child development is measurable by a developmental psychologist, who can help with the development of an appropriate parenting  plan.

It’s a simple strategy, but absolutely effective in producing child centered evidence on what is best for a child based on the child’s personality and history, in particular the relationships and attachments formed by the child between his two parents.

So if you are stuck and your child is hurting, consider parental enrichment as a means to find the elusive solution to difficult Family Court problems.

Listen to today's Divorced Dad Minute to learn how….come back often for new insights on how you can begin turning your situation around today.

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