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Mitchell Resources - Divorce, Grief & Abuse

Divorce is a Grown-up problem - by Janet Sinberg

A lap book for children of all ages - warm friendly illustrations show and tell it isn't your child's fault, you still love him/her and healthy ways to handle anger and to feel safe and secure.

Divorce is not the End of the World: Zoe’s and Evan’s guide for kids - by Zoe and Evan Stern

Written with their mom, these teenagers write about their experience of divorce. They talk about feelings, adjusting to different homes and different rules, and dealing with holidays and other special occasions. It also talks about telling your friends, when your parents start dating, adjusting to step-siblings, and coping with anger. A fairly short easy read.

Empty Arms  - by Pam Vredevelt

Experiencing a stillbirth, miscarriage or tubal pregnancy is very devastating. This book addresses the questions and feelings that come as a result of this experience. It addresses facing the news, delivery, how husbands grieve and helping children and others understand. It includes Christian messages and Bible passages.

Family Law Information Kit

This kit provides the following resources:

• Can I get a legal aid certificate? (Info on getting legal aid)

• You and your lawyer (finding a lawyer, preparing for meeting, etc)

• Community legal clinics in Southwestern Ontario (where to find them)

• What’s my job in court? (A book for children explaining who is in the courtroom, what their jobs are, rules to follow in court and terms they use.)

•  Divorce Law: Questions and answers (From Department of Justice Canada)

•  Living together: Common-law and gay or lesbian relationships (Community Legal Education Ontario: Questions and answers)

• Child support and the child support guidelines (Community Legal Education Ontario: Questions and answers)

•  Custody and access (Community Legal Education Ontario: Questions and answers)

• Because life goes on: Helping children and youth live with separation and divorce (Tips for parents)

• Family Law Resources in Ontario (legal resources, information, and referral services)

• Federal Child Support Guidelines (Department of Justice: 8 steps to determine child support)

Fresh Start- by Joan LeFeuvre

A practical guide for women in abusive relationships.

Grief Dancers: A journey into the depths of the soul  - by Susan Zimmerman

The author writes about parenting her profoundly handicapped daughter. She addresses moving from a place of grief, anger and despair to a place where she can accept and love her daughter as she is. Reads like a novel.

Grieving Kit

This kit provides numerous brochures:

• When reason fails: Understanding bereavement for suicide (Addresses questions about suicide and do’s and don’ts)

• A friend is there: Suggestions for friends of the bereaved (Guidelines for talking with those who are grieving)

• Values of the funeral (Addressing why we have funerals, options available, and the role of funeral directors.

• What every family should know (Discussing roles of funeral directors and clergy, cost, organ donations, and many other issues)

• Should children know about death? (Explaining death to children, involving children in grieving rituals)

• Color my memories (Very simple colouring book for children)

• A scrapbook of memories (A fill in the blank book with colouring pages to help a child through their grief)

• Good-bye buddy (A story about loosing a friend, along with ideas to help children grieve)

Helping Your Child through Your Divorce  - by Florence Bienenfield

This book addresses how you can create a home environment that will help your child adjust to the divorce in your family. The author outlines three principles: help your child feel loved by both parents, help your child feel good about himself, and model good coping skills. This book also covers topics such as joint-custody and mediation.

How to Parent with your ex - by Brette McWhorter Sember

Designed for both custodial and non-custodial parents, this book provides practical, to-the point advice for parents to solidify a special relationship with the child and maintain necessary, positive communication with the former spouse. 

Inner Healing After Ending a Pregnancy -by Marilyn Gryte

This resource manual offers love and support for women who have terminated a pregnancy.

It takes time - Toni Hormann

When a family separates because of a death or divorce there is much to get used too; new rules, new family members and there is sometimes a lot of confusion and a lot of questions.  It will take time to work through these issues. 

Lean On Me Gently: Helping the grieving child - Doug Manning

This book helps address the grieving family: how children grieve, symptoms to look for, what questions children may ask, creating a safe place, how to communicate that you are approachable, ceremonies to help children have closure, and tools and resources.

One Family, Two Family, New Family - by Lisa Cohn & William Merkel

This book is written by a couple who relate their own challenges in forming a step family. It begins with issues in dating as a divorced parent, and continues to address first meeting with kids, committing to a joint family, and establishing new traditions as a family. This book has many practical examples from their family.

Parenting through Crisis: Helping kids in times of loss, grief, and change - by Barbara Coloroso

This book gives practical answers to difficult questions. The messages are illustrated with anecdotes and humour. With chapters on the special challenges of adoption, single parent homes and stepfamilies, as well as extended discussions on handling the consequences of mischief and mayhem, it provides useful approaches to life’s most daunting situations.

Separation Survival Kit

This kit provides the following resources:

• Supervised Access Program of Perth (information about their services)

• Can I get a legal aid certificate? (Info on getting legal aid)

• You and your lawyer (finding a lawyer, preparing for meeting, etc)

• Legal Advocacy Program for Abused Women (about Optimism Place)

• Child Custody and Access Guide (by Optimism Place)

• Getting divorced (Questions about getting a legal divorce)

• Because life goes on: Helping children and youth live with separation and divorce (Tips for parents)

• Brochures on the federal child support guidelines

• Child support information from the government (Child support: How to use the simplified federal child support tables, Federal child support guidelines- What Ontario families need to know, Federal child support guidelines, Changing my support order)

We're Doing It - Rainbows Program/Toni Hormann

A resource for parents about telling their children that they are no longer going to live together but that everyone could start being happy again.  

What happens next - Department of Justice

Legal ramifications and information of divorce.

When friendship lives beyond the stars  - Dr. Amy Sugar

A resource book to help children cope with the death of a pet

For other resources on this topic, look under 'Videos/DVDs'.

Children’s Books on Divorce, Separation and Single Parent Families

Children’s Books on Death and Dying

We are proud to be the host agency for the Perth-Middlesex Early Years Centres.