How To Talk About Divorce With Your Children
Life Kit
NPR
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🗓️ 26 July 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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(This episode originally published April 26, 2019.)
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| 0:00.0 | This is NPR's Life Kit. |
| 0:01.8 | Today, the D word. |
| 0:03.6 | Divorce. |
| 0:04.6 | So we were just kind of talking and she was like, |
| 0:06.9 | well, why don't you just stop fighting? |
| 0:08.4 | I was like, well, like, what if we lived in two houses |
| 0:11.7 | but we didn't fight anymore? |
| 0:13.3 | She kind of like sat on it for a moment |
| 0:15.0 | and then she just started sobbing. |
| 0:23.1 | I'm Corey Turner, an education reporter with NPR |
| 0:26.1 | and the father of two boys. |
| 0:27.8 | I'm on the commonets in education reporter |
| 0:29.6 | with NPR and the mother of two girls |
| 0:31.7 | and you're listening to Life Kit for parents |
| 0:33.9 | with Sesame Workshop. |
| 0:35.7 | How do you tell kids that their world |
| 0:37.9 | is about to change forever? |
| 0:40.1 | And then, how do you help them navigate that world? |
| 0:43.0 | Well, it's not easy, but in this episode of Life Kit, |
| 0:46.3 | we've got some answers to those tough questions |
| 0:48.8 | with help from a family going through the process. |
| 1:02.7 | We just heard from Jada. |
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