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It's Not Your Fault, Koko Bear: A Read-Together Book for Parents and Young Children During Divorce (Lansky, Vicki) |  | Author: Vicki Lansky
Publisher: Book Peddlers, The
Category: Book
List Price: $7.99
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Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 10963
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Pages: 32
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 7.6 x 0.1
ISBN: 0916773477
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.89
EAN: 9780916773472
ASIN: 0916773477
Publication Date: December 15, 1997
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Amazon.com Review
How do you talk to your children about your divorce? How can you best handle their responses? Here's a children's book and parenting tool rolled into one. It's Not Your Fault, Koko Bear is a picture book designed to be read by parents to their children. Koko Bear's parents are getting a divorce, and Koko, a preschool-aged unisex bear, isn't happy about it. "I don't like this divorce. I don't want two homes," Koko says. Koko Bear's story doesn't minimize kids' pain, but it doesn't wallow in it either. The message is positive: children are reassured that their feelings are natural, that their parents still love and will care for them, and that the divorce is not their fault. At the bottom of each page, there are bullet points for parents that give information and advice about what the kids are going through, and the best way to handle each issue as it arises. (Ages 3 to 7 and parents)
Product Description
This easy-to-understand children's story and parenting guide is intended for families where both parents plan to stay active and involved in their child's life. "It's Not Your Fault, KoKo Bear" revolves around a lovable bear who doesn't want to have two homes. KoKo's experience will help children learn what divorce means, how family life will change, and understand that the divorce is not their fault. Full color Ages 3<-7. Pub: 1/98. .
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 Vicki Lansky has nailed it. March 1, 2010
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This is where Vicki starts:
Children need to know
Children should never be asked
Children think in simple and magical ways
Children need to hear age-appropriate reasons
This book as with her other books give solid advice with an open heart. Once you have read this book to a child, you will be reading it again and again. My experience is that by the third reading, you child can explain the page to you. So much comfort for your child. Buy it and read it with your child. Charlotte Hardwick, author of Win Your Child Custody War: Child Custody Help Source Book--A How-To System for People Serious About the Welfare of Their Child (12th Edition)
This book made a big difference January 15, 2010
My three-year-old loves this book! She was 2 1/2 when I separated with my husband, and she could not understand what was happening. She didn't ask a lot of questions or want to talk about it much for a long time, until we started reading this book. It's very bittersweet, and made me cry numerous times. Yet she wanted to read it all the time! It gave us a starting point, and some of the references in the book I use all the time now. [Mommy and Daddy are like two puzzle pieces that just don't fit anymore.] There's so much kids can't understand, but kids have a strong need to understand what's going on in their lives. This book explains it in a way that I couldn't have possibly explained it. Having a bear as the main character who is going through the same things, helps her to "de-personalize" the experience, take it off of our family and put it on the bear family. If she can understand what the bear family is going through, then she has a better idea of what our family is going through. I'm not a child psychologist and I don't know how to explain divorce to a three-year-old, but this book is ideal for helping kids to understand (in my experience!).
 divorce & kids April 14, 2009
Sharon R., LMSW
Breaking up is hard to do, especially if it involves parents, kids, and divorce. Delightful illustrations, clearly scripted dialogues, and parental education gives this book an A at helping younger children understand that divorce is not their fault. As a psychotherpist, I highly recommend it for divorcing parents.
 Long January 19, 2009
S. Horne (Texas)
I felt that the book was very wordy for the age group that it addresses.
unrealistic April 27, 2008
Teresa
I read the book to my two children and they simply looked at me and said ..."bears don't get divorced!" I think it is unrealistic and they're aren't any coping tools to resolve issues the PARENTS often create for the children after divorce or separation. It is cute but they seemed to have a hard time identifying with bears getting divorced.
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