The Bright Side: Surviving Your Parents' Divorce

By Max Sindell

Book Overview

Hi This book is for you, not your parents. This whole process you're going through is tough. Believe me, I know. I've been there. Divorce ran in my family even before I was born. My parents were... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 075730625X
• ISBN13: 9780757306259
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Hci
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

A guide written especially for teens and young adults

The Bright Side: Surviving Your Parents' Divorce is a guide written especially for teens and young adults, by an author who knows what surviving a parent's divorce is like from personal experience. Author Max Sindell, whose parents split up when he was six, begins with a child's bill of rights - including the absolute most important right, the right to be safe and feel safe. The other rights a child of divorcing parents has include the right to awareness in what's going on, the right to counseling, the right to be heard, the right to be one's own person, the right to be neutral, and the right to private communication. Chapters go on to teach the reader what to expect during and after a divorce, from dealing with mom and/or dad dating again to meeting a new stepfamily to traveling alone, coping with less money in the family (divorce and lawyers are expensive!) and much more. "Always remember your right to feel safe and secure. I can't say it enough times. If your parent ever has someone in his or her life who violates your feelings of safety and security, tell that person or tell your parent. If your parent doesn't take care of it, tell your other parent, tell a counselor, tell everybody, because that's the most important thing." Enthusiastically recommended, especially as a giftbook for any young person whose parents are divorcing.

Great for pre-teen/ teens living with parents divorcing

This is a great guide for teens/ or kids going thru their parents divorce. It gives them a special Kids Bill of Rights that explains such things as..they have the right to feel safe and loved no matter what...and they have the right NOT to be used as a pawn or a spy by one or the other parent. Best of all its written in a way that keeps the child engaged! Keeps them reading because as it says..this is a book for THEM not their parents. I do recommend this as a great tool to help a child thru this difficult time!

Where was Max Sindell twenty years ago?

Where was Max Sindell twenty years ago? As a child of a divorce I could have used Max Sindell's great new book, The Bright Side, to help smooth over some of the emotional rough patches which I encountered while growing up. Even now, in my adult years, Sindell's book still resonates with me, not only as a kid's instruction manual for dealing with the confusion and pain of divorce, but also I think as an effective means to help divorced parents understand the conflicts their own children might be feeling. The Bright Side is very clever little book, filled with interesting anecdotes from the author's own life, great bits of advice and is quite well written, easily understood and enjoyed by both parents and kids. Highly recommended.

A Terrific Book for Children of Divorce

As a parent and a grandparent, I find this to be a very useful book for all kids going through divorce of their parents. It is excellently presented, and useful. I plan to give this book to any child who would benefit from the author's personal experience.

Interesting and vital POV for young people!

"The Bright Side" is a fresh take on the how-to genre. This is a book geared at children whose parents are going through divorce, but instead of giving them strict advice to follow (kids don't want rules, anyhow!), Max Sindell offers a different perspective. While admitting that being a child of divorce can be challenging, his examples prove that those challenges can be exciting (traveling, having a new schedule, welcoming new family) and ultimately the challenges can make the child become more independent young adult. His Bill of Rights is a fun, special piece, helping kids to remember that they don't have to deal with divorce alone or as a mediator. As their parents are benefiting from the situation, Sindell assures his readers that they, too, should gain some new experience and perspectives. Sindell is neither patronizing nor condescending -- he balances personal success stories with a calm assurance that divorce will certainly have rough patches. Overall, this is a great suggestion for any child dealing with divorce as it's helpful and adventurous without being long-winded!