Divorce workbook children pdf

Written by an experienced co Divorce affects thousands of children each year, and each and every one of them will benefit from the caring, friendly activities in this book. Written by an experienced counselor, The Divorce Workbook for Children offers you simple and engaging activities that can help you help kids address and cope with issues related to parental divorce. The goal of these activities is to help kids feel 'out of the middle' of the parental conflict and learn to be more resilient and self-reliant.

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Add this book to your favorite list ». Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. All Languages. More filters. Sort order. Weinfurter rated it really liked it Oct 20, Heather Ross-Ibey rated it really liked it Nov 17, This is not easy to understand and may take a lot of reading and research, but it will be worth the homework. Financial Divorce Guide nathenssiegel. An angry ex-husband or ex-wife likes to sing empty threats. Keep your head up and tune that noise out.

Negotiate with an attorney present if the other party seems too unreasonable to talk to. You may also see divorce agreement templates. DIY Divorce Packet lawhelpnc. Whether you like it or not, divorce is also a business matter where there is little place for emotion if you want to get it over and done with.

The sooner the better, right? Then, you must understand that this is no longer marriage counseling. The time for discussing matters of the heart and marital issues is really over.

You may also see daily worksheet templates. Divorce Worksheet for Child Support in. It would become a good reference to see how far along you are in finalizing the necessary paperwork. You also tend to understand the whole process much better because, whether you like it or not, divorces can be extremely complex. There are too many ups and downs, and too much drama that it becomes an emotional roller coaster where some people take too long to come to terms with it.

Divorce or Annulment Worksheet washingtonlawhelp. There is more to marriage than just a big wedding with a pretty white gown and a bouquet of flowers. There is more to life than the person you have planned to spend it with. There is more to love and happy endings than just loving another and being with another because you have yourself. It would take more than just a divorce to break the love you have for yourself and the love you have for life itself.

You may also see sheet templates. The Past Is in the Past In a church that I once pastored, our pianist had a sixteen-year-old daughter who could also play the piano. The mother would play on Sunday mornings, and the daughter would play on Wednesday evenings. The mother began to have some physical problems. Back in this was very serious. The kind of operation she needed was risky.

Doctors have learned so much since then, but at that time, the percentage of survival was small for the condition she had. So they decided to give her X- ray treatments.

The treatments were supposed to shrivel that tumor. She traveled to this larger city twice a week for these treatments. She never asked for prayer. She never asked me to anoint her with oil or lay hands on her. But she never came for special prayer. You see, when the Lord spoke this to me, we were already standing, and I was about to dismiss everyone.

We had three sections of seats in our auditorium. A woman got up and stepped out into the aisle. She started walking down to the front. And on the inside of me, I knew that she was not the one. Healing belongs to you. On Tuesday she went back to the doctor for her X-ray treatment. Go ahead and take the picture. You just go ahead and do it. They had to wait all day for it to be developed. It took longer in those days.

They ended up taking five different pictures of her in five different positions. After they finished taking and developing all five, they called her husband in. All five that they had recently taken showed no growth at all. All five pictures were clear! When she got born again, God forgot about her past. It was all gone! And twenty-five years later, I spoke with her, and she was still well! I had a pastor friend share with me about three young couples he had in his church.

All three couples were in their late twenties and early thirties. They all came to his church and got saved. In the process of time, one of the young men felt God calling him to preach. So the pastor tried to help him. He gave him the opportunity to work with the youth and teach some Sunday school classes. This pastor was not only the pastor of this church, but he was also the presbyter of a particular denomination for the Fort Worth section.

There was another little church in the suburbs of Fort Worth that needed a pastor. This was many years ago when Fort Worth was much smaller. The little church only had half a dozen or so members, and about twenty or thirty people showed up for the services. So this pastor sent this young man from his church.

After being there a year, he still had only twenty-five or thirty people coming to the services. So he quit. Before he quit, he applied for a license because he needed to be able to perform weddings and funerals. Have you ever been divorced? So he sent them to pastor that little church in the suburbs of Fort Worth. They stayed about a year and then left.

The young man also got licensed. So the pastor sent them to this little church. They started building a new building. So he needed a license to legally marry people. He filled out the questionnaire. He had never been divorced, but his wife had been. She was divorced before she ever got saved. Yet he did more for that church than all the rest of them.

The pastor helped him get licensed with another organization. He stayed at that church and built it up to several hundred. But God just blessed this one fellow. When people come to know the Lord, whatever happened in their past is gone. First Corinthians chapter 7 explains that whatever state a man is in when the grace of God comes to him, he should stay there. If he has been married and divorced three or four times before he got saved and is now married, he should stay right where he is and go on with God.

God meets us right where we are. You can begin wherever you are—whether single, married, divorced, or remarried—and go on with God. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. Paul tells husbands to love their wives.

Well, obviously they have some natural love for one another, or they never would have married to begin with. That far exceeds human love. Christ loved the Church with divine love. It was divine love in operation. This letter written to the Ephesians could not apply to sinners. An unsaved man could not love his wife as Christ loved the Church.

That would be impossible! He has a natural, human love for his wife, but not a divine love. Notice that Christian husbands have a potential to love their wives in a way that sinner husbands cannot love their wives, because the love of God—the God-kind of love—has been shed abroad in their hearts by the Holy Ghost.

Now natural, human love can be selfish. And even though the love of God may be in your heart as a Christian, you can still be selfish.

You will be primarily interested in yourself! But the God-kind of love is unselfish. You have to work at it, just like you do anything else. You have something to do with it. The same is true with a marriage! In talking about marriage, we often start reading Ephesians , where Paul tells wives to submit themselves to their own husbands.

But if we go back a few verses, Paul gives instructions to the whole Church at Ephesus. EPHESIANS —22 18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; 19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; 20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; 21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

In verse 21, Paul speaks to the Church at Ephesus—telling them to submit themselves to one another. Then in verse 22, he brings up the marriage relationship. By taking a scripture out of its setting, you can make it say anything you want it to say. Many times people quote verse 22 out of context. So what does Paul really mean? He meant that it is easy to submit to the rule of love. Every twenty-five or thirty years, it seems the same error comes around again.

Someone says they have a new revelation. It will last for a little while and then die down. Some get into error by overemphasizing the fact that the husband is the head of the wife. They believe that the husband has the right to treat her like a doormat. I remember my wife and I were having lunch one time with a certain man and his wife. She was just like a little kid who had been continually intimidated.

At one time, early on in their marriage, she had been a schoolteacher. But at the time we met with them, she was so bowed down; we could detect that there was something wrong with her. As my wife and I visited with them, I noticed that the husband did all the talking.

I mean, can she speak in her own home? I saw where the problem was right away. He wanted to dominate and control her. He wanted her to do exactly what he told her to do. At the end of the meal, the husband wanted me to pray for his wife, because she was facing an operation. She was nervous and depressed. I was not surprised. She was living with a fool! A fellow like that is foolish. And really, the main thing that was wrong with her was simply her nerves.

This man took a few scriptures out of context. And you can readily see that you could twist these scriptures in Ephesians chapter 5 and make them say that the husband is to dominate the wife, if you wanted to. Now on another occasion, I remember a minister whom I invited to come and preach in my church. He had two small children, just about the same age as our children.

And so, I gave him a meeting to help him. We took up more money for him than anyone else I ever had preach at the church. We also bought him and his wife some clothes while they were there.

And I saw how he treated his wife and two little children. He treated his wife badly. She had no say-so. She had to do exactly what he told her to do. He forgot about the next verse, which reminds husbands to love their wives as Christ loved the Church. I talked to the poor fellow about his family. I told him that he needed to change the way he treated his wife and two children. They are going to think that God is like you.

And we had a good meeting—one of the best meetings we ever had. Later on, he took a church, and I held a meeting for him. I stayed in the parsonage with him and his family. I talked to him again. I remember we discussed Scripture together. And he was the kind of fellow who thought he was always right and everyone else was wrong. He would quote one scripture, and I would quote two. Finally, he would run out of scriptures, and I would still be quoting them. As a pastor, he needed to visit someone.

You could even see it in his preaching. He thought that he was right, and everyone else was wrong. His two children ended up just as I said they would. I told him exactly what would happen if he continued to treat them badly. I just knew what the Word of God says. We sometimes emphasize sowing and reaping in connection with financial giving.

But, you see, the law of sowing and reaping is true in every other area of life as well. The children are grown now. He was found dead in bed, alone. He brought it on himself. They thought that God was like him. The children grew up with that idea, with that father image. But, thank God, He is not like that! So the husband and wife would sing specials; they were excellent singers.

They would usually sing a special every night just before I preached. I would sit down off the platform and then go up on the platform when I got ready to preach. I wanted to sit out front and listen to them sing. Their specials were such a blessing. Well, during the preaching, his wife sat down off the platform because she had two children to watch—one was two-and-a-half years old and the other one was four years old.

So he would call her up to the platform to sing. I noticed that when she would go up to the platform, the whole back of one leg of her hosiery had a huge run in it. Every night and every day I was there in the parsonage, I would hear her ask him for money for hose. Back in those days, you could buy a pair of hose for under a dollar. Her husband would spend money carelessly, never even offering to give her money for a new pair of hose.

He was always dressed very nicely. So after three or four nights, he and I were in town one day. I was driving, and I pulled up in front of one of the dry goods stores. He could have used that money to buy his wife several pairs of hose. I have the money. Another pastor I was holding a meeting for was exactly the same way.

Even though it was during World War II and prices were frozen, he drove a new automobile and wore the finest suits. Well, he had three children. The oldest one was not old enough to go to school yet; a child started school at the age of six back then.

The youngest one was just a baby, only two or three months old. His wife had some serious problems in carrying the last child. They thought she was going to lose it. So when the baby was born, they delivered the child by cesarean section. Now she was doing all the housework and cooking every meal. I stayed in the parsonage and saw her doing all of this, in addition to taking care of the three kids.

She had to get those kids ready for church and then once they got to church, she had to seat them on the pew with her and make sure they were taken care of when she got up to sing with her husband.

Yet he was dressed nicely from head to toe. And he quotes the scripture that wives should submit to their husbands. I will pay for it. I could tell that she was afraid of him. Obviously, this man was not walking in love. I am not afraid of Jesus. I love and respect Him. Because I know that He loves me.

The Bible says that husbands should love their wives as Christ loved the Church Eph. She almost started trembling. You have a good car. Then I mentioned the lady in his church who offered to do the laundry for her. Then, some time later, he took up with another woman. The home was broken, and his ministry ended. The husband should love the wife, just as Christ loves the Church.

The husband should nourish and cherish his wife as Christ cherishes His own Body. He loves her better than he does himself.

Others will know that we are disciples of Christ because of the love we have for one another John Before he started preaching, he was in business as a plumber.

He became quite cantankerous. I do not neglect you, and I do not neglect the children. You know that. Whatever you say here in the house goes. So he locked her out. When she returned, she sat out on the back steps all night.

He came downstairs the next morning and unlocked the door. It must have been cool because he found her all huddled up. She was leaning against the door, and when he opened it, she almost fell into the kitchen.

She just loved him. Then he felt convicted. He became a great man of God. He was mightily used. And his wife had a big part in all of it. What if his wife had listened to him and quit going to church? They both would have backslid. Who knows where they would have ended up. I remember when I first started preaching. I pastored a little church out in the country, and I was just a single boy, only 19 years old. As a pastor, I had to deal with problems in the church, even marriage problems.

One man and his wife got into a disagreement. The wife was saved and baptized with the Holy Spirit; she spoke in other tongues. However, the husband was newly saved and had not been baptized with the Holy Spirit. But he was a good man. Husbands and wives ought to learn to disagree without being disagreeable. Now in this particular situation, the wife was percent wrong!

I had dealt with them before, and the wife was usually right. But on this specific occasion, she was wrong. I went to their house, and she was so mad!

So he stood outside and told me his side of the story. When I went into their house, she let me know right away that she was right. I just listened. I just know! Please forgive me. You see, she saw herself. She saw how selfish she had become. She had stopped walking in love. I remember one fellow came to me crying and weeping. Do what the Bible says to do and straighten up. Do you love her? And then act like it. My wife and I talked with both he and his wife. Before they were saved, they were all messed up.

She had never been married and had two illegitimate children. But then, they both got saved, were baptized with the Holy Ghost, and met in church. And they were married. He was mean to them; he would call them terrible names. Put her before yourself.

And act right. But they did, thank God. Some time later, my wife and I received a beautiful letter from them; they were out in the ministry, working for God and happy. I remember seeing them both in one of our seminars. The minister at the pulpit made a call for people to come down to the front to consecrate themselves to be missionaries or to get a worldwide vision.

Well, I was sitting on the platform, and I saw this fellow get up out of his seat and walk about 10 feet. He treated her as if she were a princess.

You see, he began to act right. He began to love her like Jesus loves the Church. And she began to respond to him. Therefore, man was a creation of love. The woman became flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone Gen. Now notice in the Book of Ephesians that Paul made reference to what God did in Genesis—how God made woman out of man. Woman was made to answer to the heart need, the spiritual need, the mental need, and the physical need of man.

GENESIS —24 21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; 22 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

Now this portion of Scripture has within it some of the richest facts about marriage that have ever been written. The man shall leave his mother and father. The wife shall leave her mother and father. And the two shall constitute a home. This is the beginning of the home life, or the family life. There have been more problems created in a home because a mother-in-law or a father-in-law wanted to tell the couple what to do.

When they become adults, they are accountable to God themselves. The young man was a good, successful minister. They met and decided to get married. At first, her mother said that it was fine. You can marry him, but you have to wait a year. Do I have to obey Momma? You certainly do not have to obey your mother! But children should grow up and get out on their own. Parents should teach their children to make decisions for themselves.

Parents are not responsible for their grown-up children. I told this young couple to go ahead and get married. We all prayed and were convinced that she had the same burden for ministry that he had.

She had a desire to help him. I encourage you to follow what you believe God has said to both of you. I marched down the aisle with her.

We were wrong. If we had to do it over again, we would be at your wedding. Now the man is the head of the wife, but she is the head of the home. Let me give you a scripture. It means that the wife is to rule the household. Someone had to run the home while the husband was at work. And her husband and children are her beloved subjects.

It is to be a love kingdom. It is a historical fact that no nation rises above its homes. And no home rises above its motherhood. I do not believe that is the will of God. I remember a lady in our church who was one of the most spiritual women I had ever met. She was more spiritual than any five preachers I knew or any five you could mention. She had the gifts of the Spirit operating in her life. When she got saved and filled with the Holy Spirit, she and her husband were already married and had a family.

I think their youngest child was not yet born at that time. Her husband was a good man; she loved him, and he loved her. He provided for their home and would go to church with her some. He was a good, law-abiding citizen who made a living for them. She went right on serving God. And when she was fifty-five years old, he died. He did get saved before he died. Thank God, he saw reality in her, and she got him saved. Well, after she had been a widow for about five years, we moved away for a couple of years, and then the Lord sent us back to that church.

In the meantime, we heard that she had remarried. So when we moved back, we were straightening things up in the parsonage, and one of her daughters—actually, her oldest daughter who was about thirty-six years of age—came to the parsonage to help us unpack boxes.

And so, we asked her about her mother. Her mother had gone to work in another city before she ever met him. She moved away about a year after you both left. She went away to work and met this man in the city she moved to. Then she brought him here to introduce him to us children. This woman was very spiritual.

She had the gifts of the Spirit operating through her, but she was not listening to her spirit. A person can get over into the flesh very easily. Both of them wind up disappointed. Well, her mother decided that she was going to fast and pray about it.

The Bible said not to be unequally yoked together with unbelievers [see 2 Cor. Well, all her fasting and praying was not going to change the Bible. There are many spirits out there. Remember, this woman had the gifts of the Spirit operating in her life—the word of wisdom and the word of knowledge. But in this situation, she just simply let her flesh, the natural person, dominate her. And there was some kind of spirit that spoke to her.

You can know the Holy Spirit and still listen to wrong spirits. She said that the Lord told her to marry him. They have only been married now about three of four months.

She lives in another city now. So we rushed out of the parsonage to greet her. And by the time we hit the yard, we could see that her eye was black, and her nose was bruised.

She looked like she had been run through a gristmill. Then she started crying and bawling. We got her up on the parsonage porch, and my wife and I put our arms around her to comfort her.

He just hit me right in the face and knocked me down. He jumped right in the middle of me and started beating me in the face. He almost beat me to death. Finally, I got loose from him. I have been in bed for the last 10 days.