I have been offering something called “In Your Opnion” to my newsletter subscribers where I have a weekly question and they can email me the answer, this is my first week to have a response and so here is the question asked and the answers received:
This weeks question:
“How would you explain a separation of a Mom and Dad to the children in a household? Let’s say they are the ages of my children 7, 3 and 1?”
Discriminating Diva from My Loonyverse responded,
“I would do exactly what I did with my kids- 1, 5, 8 and 12. Tell them that while we both love them very much, we can’t live together any more since it was making everyone tense and unhappy. My kids are older now and they are all glad we left when we did.”
Make it a Happy Day!
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I think her answer is spot on. I think it’s important to be honest and to not blame either person. Just to put it out there as a mutual decision.
I told my son pretty much the same thing. That sometimes Mommies and Daddy’s are better if they don’t live together. My ex and I were always happy when my son saw us together. I think it is so important to never talk about their father in a negative way around them. (as hard as it may be sometimes) That is the healthiest for them.
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My oldest daughter just said about time Dad.
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I think her response was spot on. I know when me and my husband separated the few times we did that I sat Owen down and told him in a way that didn’t put down his daddy or make him feel we didn’t love him any. He seemed to understand it to a point at the time but thankfully we were able reconcile.
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