10 Top Tips for Parents
- Conflict is the major cause of unhappiness and poor outcomes for children
- Children need reassurance that their parents still love them
- Children need reassurance that what has happened is not their fault
- Children and young people need information about what is happening in their family – in ways they can understand – and without a blow by blow account or whose fault it is
- Children do not want to take sides – do not make them
- Children benefit from keeping contact with both parents – and their wider family
- Children will tell each parent what they want to hear – opposing views are not uncommon
- Children can cope with short-term disruption in their lives – as long as parents continue to support them
- Children cope best when they can go easily between their two homes
- Children need their parents to make decisions
- Most of all – look after yourself so you can look after your children
