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When you’re feeling a bit low and food doesn’t interest you, it is really beneficial to get some key nutrients in your diet to increase your energy and boost your mood. Amy from The Young Parents Project gives us her run down on what those nutrients are, plus some quick and easy recipes.

 

My own children have been through the break up of myself and their dad, so I asked them to contribute to this section.  We have gathered together useful stuff that is aimed at children and young adults (rather than just to their parents) and a video - though parents would do well to check out what's below......

 

 

 

The Positive Parent = Confident Kids Parenting Plan
A practical solution to sharing the parenting of your children after splitting up.

Every relationship will have its ups and downs as relationships need nurturing at but I think it’s helpful and to ask yourself these questions if you think you’re ready for another relationship after becoming divorced or separated:

Bringing up children is not an exact science and while there are common themes that many parents encounter such as learning how to relate to their children, finding effective ways to discipline them or helping you to build their self esteem, there are other more specific issues that have a greater impact on family life such as getting divorced, becoming a step family or beating the bickering of sibling rivalry.

 

Where do we go from here?

Keeping healthy relationships.

Children can assess the temperature of our moods with alarming accuracy, no matter what their age. Often the child's perception that “something is wrong” is quite often more accurate than we realise ourselves.

Stepfamilies have a bad image. Think of Snow White’s jealous stepmother or Cinderella’s ugly sisters or at the other end of the spectrum, picture the unrealistically positive stepfamily, such as the Brady Bunch.

 

I have been working with a wonderful group of parents who are all going through a divorce and one of their main worries was how to tell the children about what was going to happen and what to actually say to them.

Children naturally fear that they will lose one of their parents in a divorce or that their parents will abandon them. They also fear the changes and disruptions that a divorce will inevitably bring to their family and they often blame themselves.

One of the key things I ask parents to do is to sit down and to work out together the answer to this question: