Kate & Emily - Worksheets, The Children

THINGS TO DO WITH YOUR CHILDREN

Tue, 6 Jun 2006 12:58:22 +0000

Here are a couple of ideas of things to do with your children that will help generate even more ideas of fun you can all have together in the future.

A FAMILY LIST OF FUN THINGS TO DO
Sit down with the children and make a list of all the adventures you’d like to go on and the fun things you’d like to do.

Use these categories and write down everyone’s ideas under each:

Start with the big ideas (day trips, holidays etc)

The things to do at home if it was raining and cold

The things to do outside that don’t cost any money if it was sunny

The things to do outside that don’t cost any money if it was raining and cold

Questions to help you talk about tricky stuff with the children

Tue, 6 Jun 2006 12:37:32 +0000

Children of any age can find it difficult to talk about how they feel about not living with both their parents. They say it’s ‘fine’ or just don’t raise it but they’re NOT fine, so talk to them and help them tell you. This worksheet gives you an outline of questions you could ask to help you and your children talk.

How are you feeling?

Lots of children can feel sad or angry etc (use whatever adjectives describe how you think your children are feeling) when they don’t live with their daddy / mummy anymore. Does it make you feel like that?

IF YES: Which bits make you sad / angry etc? Which other bits?

Heard the one about the ex-Mum and ex-Dad?

Mon, 22 May 2006 12:06:33 +0000

Probably not! Only in America does it cross a child's mind to divorce their parents. The ex is our history, not our childen's. To them, our ex is their Mum or Dad and they will be forever and ever and wherever and whoever they may be. Even unknown Mums and Dads live in their child's imagination, even then they're not an ex-parent. So how are we going to deal with this? The following questions should help to get you thinking about it....

Q1 Write down the advantages to your children of encouraging your ex to be an involved parent

Q2 Write down the advantages to YOU of encouraging your ex to be an involved parent.

Temperature check - how are you doing in front of the children?

Sat, 25 Feb 2006 15:00:27 +0000

Underlying everything we do at Kate & Emily is the fundamental belief that we do what we do for the health of ALL our family (both us and our children). Our children ground us and looking at things through their eyes helps us to behave more like adults and to keep our pride and self-respect in tact! Of course our children aren’t in clover about the whole thing, but we can at least have homes where they feel able to tell us what they think and feel

So here are some questions to help you to take a look at how you’re doing things at the moment. The answers might help you to:

change tack a bit