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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:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 22421
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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 Decent July 18, 2010
sbdiva
It was what I expect. Great purchase for the price. I wish the cover was not as bent as it was, but still glad I was able to buy it for what I needed.
 More optimistic than other books - good for parents not at war with each other April 8, 2010
M. Tanner (CA)
We have a 5 yr old son and were looking for a book to help us through a difficult and emotional divorce (aren't they all?), something suitable for his age, but also one that doesn't talk about parents hating each other or arguing all the time, etc. We are trying very hard to stay friendly and continue to support him as a team. I can tell he's relieved in many ways because now there isn't a lot of arguing and bad energy around him, so in some ways the change is for the better. We wanted to support the positive change, along with the challenging. This book is a very helpful addition to our processing of emotions and trying to figure out ways to explain things and to talk about them - both child to parent/s and parent/s to child. Now we have a copy in each house. Highly recommended.
 Not so great for preschoolers...better for ages 7 to 10 April 2, 2010
Rebecca W. Davidson (Singapore)
I bought this book because of the recommendations, but I find it far to wordy and deep for my preschoolers. On every spread, the left page is entirely text (multiple paragraphs), and the right page is an illustration. I think this book is probably better suited to 7-10 year-olds than to preschoolers. For 3-5 year-olds, instead of this book, I recommend "Standing on my own two feet" by Schmitz and "Two Homes" by Masurel.
Vicki Lansky has nailed it. March 1, 2010
che
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!).
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