-
Subscribe comments via RSS
-
Recent Posts
- She Said . . . What?! —Common Sense When Kids Talk to Judges
- Tips For Children Who Are Alienated or At Risk For Alienation
- Why Children Take Sides Against a Parent
- Blowback For Divorce Poison! Mother Jailed, Ordered to Pay $84k, and Stripped of Custody
- Think an alienated child is well-adjusted? Dig deeper.
Recent Comments
- Anonymous on Origins of Batman
- Annabelle Twilley Richardson on Daddy, Tell Me A Bedtime Story
- Dr. Richard A. Warshak on What Courts Can Do About Parental Alienation
- Michael Craven on What Courts Can Do About Parental Alienation
- [name withheld by administrator] on What Courts Can Do About Parental Alienation
Category Archives: holidays
5 Ways to Keep Kids Happy This Season
While other children eagerly anticipate family celebrations and holiday gifts, those being raised by parents in two homes face the holiday season with some trepidation. Will the parents agree on the holiday schedule? Will the transitions between homes go smoothly, … Continue reading
Posted in alienated parents/rejected parents, blended families, coparenting, holidays, parental alienation/parental alienation syndrome
Tagged divorce, divorce poison, high conflict divorce, interference with custodial access, parental alienation, preparing for the holiday season, Warshak
Comments Off on 5 Ways to Keep Kids Happy This Season
Six Tips to Give Children Better Holidays
Holidays can be times of great joy when families build shared positive memories. Holidays can also be times of great stress, blues, and depression. When parents live apart from each other, they need to make a special effort to work … Continue reading
Shaking the Holiday Blues Away
The winter holidays are fast approaching. Everyone seems happy and excited except you. Intense sadness or loneliness cloud any hope of enjoyment. To make matters worse, you reproach yourself for being unable to share the holiday spirit. If you see … Continue reading
Posted in alienated parents/rejected parents, general psychology and mental health, holidays
Tagged Christmas, family relationships, holiday blues, holidays Canada, preparing for the holiday season, Thanksgiving, Warshak
Comments Off on Shaking the Holiday Blues Away
Father’s Day Message to Rejected Fathers
I set out to write this message for rejected fathers and quickly realized that I wanted to tell them the same things I told rejected mothers on Mother’s Day. So here is the prior blogpost, intact, except that Father replaces … Continue reading
Why Kids Shouldn’t “Visit” Parents This Summer
Summertime, for school-age children, should be when the living is easy. It is a time for exploration, new experiences, and an extended break from the grind of studies. Family vacations create life-long memories. For children whose parents live apart, these … Continue reading
Posted in blended families, coparenting, holidays
Tagged divorce, high conflict divorce, preparing for the holiday season, Warshak
1 Comment
Mother’s Day Message to Rejected Mothers
Mother’s Day is not a happy occasion for mothers whose children reject them. On this day your children should be honoring you and celebrating your contributions to their lives. Instead, their love for you has been disowned under the influence … Continue reading
Keeping New Year’s Resolutions
People tend to make the same resolutions year after year: they resolve to end a particular vice on average ten times. Every renewed vow represents last year’s failure. One out of four people give up by the end of the … Continue reading
Posted in general psychology and mental health, holidays
Tagged managing holiday stress, Warshak
Comments Off on Keeping New Year’s Resolutions
Dr. Warshak’s Guide To Managing Holiday Blues
Holiday blues are intense feelings of sadness or loneliness during the holiday period. Such feelings are more unsettling than usual because they contrast with the spirit of benevolence and joy that we associate with the holidays. Holiday blues last for … Continue reading