Back to School After Divorce

Parenting: Children Can Recover from Split if Teachers, Parents Work Together When Mary Ann Gehrenbeck, an elementary school teacher in Silver Spring, Md., prepared to tell her son about her divorce, one of the first people she confided in was her son’s teacher....

Using Obama as a Role Model

Single Parenting: Tips to Talk to your Children about Being Successful Stanley Ann Soetoro was a twice-divorced white woman who raised two bi-racial children without any help. And as her only son accepts the nomination for U.S. President at the Democratic National...

Need Parenting Help? Call a Coach

Life Coaching: Life Coaches Can Help Parents Help Children after Divorce Getting a divorce can feel like your own personal train wreck. You can lose your home and your financial security. Sometimes, family and friends take sides. You can’t just blink twice and...

5 Simple Steps: Teens and Divorce

Five Ways to Make Certain your Teenager Copes Well with the Divorce Divorce can be especially rough on teenagers. But you can help your teen through the experience, with a little extra time and attention. Here’s how. 1. Reassure them. It’s OK for your teen...

About Family: Letters from First Marriage

Parenting: Should I Keep Letters from First Marriage for My Grown Daughter? Q: I got divorced from my first husband more than 20 years ago, and have been remarried, happily, for more than ten years. I have a box of letters to and from my first husband that I have...