Who Can I Love? - Paperback

by Richard Howard Slatin MC (Author)

"Who Can I Love?" can help your child/children to be happier! This book helps children and parents to better understand, accept, and process their feelings in healthy ways. Written in a storybook style, this book provides therapy for parents and young children in cases involving divorce, custody, parental alienation syndrome, and/or feelings of parental displacement. Reading this book separately or together will help both the child/children and the parents to understand that it is "okay" for a child to love the parents, step-parents, and parent-partners without conflict, loyalty-conflicts, anxiety, or fear of loss or upset. Left unresolved, a child often expresses these unhealthy thoughts and feelings with unhealthy behaviors involving anxiety and/or depression. Among commonly-displayed behaviors can be a child's inability to sleep through the night, reluctance to spend time with a parent, crying, and/or display sadness.

Author Biography

Mr. Slatin specializes in high-conflict resolution within family structures. He is a child custody evaluator, a family mediator, a parenting coordinator, and a professional educator/speaker. As an educator/speaker, Mr. Slatin teaches mediation, advocacy, and conflict resolution programs at all educational levels. Additionally, he is a volunteer speaker on how to best shield children from conflict.