Help - Child Councelling

Hi Pat
Really pleased for you, seems two good things came out of this, you found out all the effort you put into your daughters was worth it and you also got to talk yourself.
I hope you asked to be kept upto date after your ex not telling you for a year.
Hugs Nanny.

Hi,

Glad that your daughter has been/is getting help. This is so important in times of a split and sometimes children prefer to talk with a third party for fear of not upsetting either parent.
I am glad that the school has involved you too, although I would have thought that this should have been done from the start. But no point dwelling... the main thing is that you and her can relate and that she can talk too.
It will probably help re-inforce the bond between you and your daughter too.


I sought councelling for two of my children.
One during the first year of split for anger issues (the school were fantactic and assigned a keyworker from parent line too)
Then earlier this year my eldest, who had bottling up had some issues. This was a bit more tricky but have found a great teacher that he bonds with and this has helped. Although stbx used it as a firing range to try and dicredit my parenting and the relationship I have with my son. He was involved in the meetings, albeit not with my son there and neither was I.

Survive
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I think as a parent councelling comprimises one or both parents. I was glad that she had sought councelling, if she wasn't bothered about the divorce then I think I would have been more concerned. It also gave me a bigger picture of what had gone on and what the girls knew and think about it. I think my ex's has a lot of thinking to do about what she wants and whats good for the girls. But based on what has gone before I doubt that will happen.