Dear Parents: What Your Kids Want You to Know About Divorce with Grace Casper on The Divorce and Beyond Podcast #306

This week, Susan Guthrie welcomes podcaster and child of divorce Grace Casper to the Divorce & Beyond podcast. Grace shares insights on what your kids wish you knew about how your divorce impacts them.   The scariest part of divorce for parents is how it may negatively impact their kids. In this episode, Grace Casper joins Susan to offer her unique perspective (as a child of divorce) about what kids need, want, think, and feel about divorce and how it affects them. During this conversation and in Grace’s new book, Dear Parents: Notes From a Child of Divorce, Grace shares how you can help your kids through a divorce and have open and ongoing conversations with them. Grace Casper’s world changed forever when her parents told her that they were getting a divorce. In the wake of this, Grace started writings tips for her younger brother based on what she was learning from her parents’ divorce, trying to help him as they went from house to house. Fourteen years later, Grace began the first draft of the book that would be borne from these tips, writing in the hopes of being able to provide parents with a look into the effects of divorce on their children with first-hand experience. She also runs a page called Divorce Tips From Kids and a podcast called "Divorce: What I Wish My Parents Knew." This podcast allows other children of divorce to share their stories.  Topics and Golden Nuggets include: Creating a catalyst for conversations with children about divorce - conversations about divorce are not a one-and-done conversation How to empower your kids (and keep them at the center) - a good place to start is to trial co-parenting schedules and ask them for input   Golden Nugget! Grace’s “suggestion box” approach to parenting during divorce  Teaching your kids to find the good  Find a safe person to share your thoughts and feelings with about divorce that is NOT your children It is a gift to your child and yourself to be able to be the safe parent  **************************************** About this week's special guest: Grace Casper When she was eight years old, Grace Casper’s world changed forever when her parents told her that they were getting a divorce. In the wake of this, Grace started writings tips for her younger brother based on what she was learning from her parents’ divorce, trying to help him as they went from house to house. Fourteen years later, Grace began the first draft of the book that would be borne from these tips, writing in the hopes of being able to provide parents with a look into the effects of divorce on their children with first-hand experience. She also runs a page called Divorce Tips From Kids and a podcast called "Divorce: What I Wish My Parents Knew". This podcast allows other children of divorce to share their story. Grace Casper is a writer, speaker, podcast host, and full-time elementary school librarian. She lives in Waco, Texas with her tiny Maltipoo, Teddy, and two of her best friends. She graduated from Baylor University, but her hometown in Colorado will always have her heart.  Grace’s website: DivorceTipsFromKids.com Read the first two chapters of Grace’s book, for free! Visit: https://www.divorcetipsfromkids.com/freebie and enter code: FOR THE KIDS Grace’s book: Dear Parents: Notes From a Child of Divorce Grace on Instagram: http://instagram.com/divorcetipsfromkids Grace on Facebook: http://facebook.com/divorcetipsfromkids Grace on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@divorcetipsfromkids ***************************************** THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS:   CREATE A COMPREHENSIVE PARENTING PLAN THAT WORKS FOR YOUR FAMILY Lesa Koski was recently my guest on the show in a popular episode entitled “Doing Divorce Different” because there isn’t just one way to divorce.  Lesa is back to help you co-parent better with an online parenting course that helps you: Create A Comprehensive Parenting Plan That Works For Your Family. If you are terrified that divorce will ruin your child, this course