Read a review of Chip, The Puppy With Two Homes by MaryAnn Kildebeck, Clinical Social Worker/Collaborative Law Divorce Professional.

Are you a separated or divorced parent looking for a way to ease of burden of shared custody on your child? 

Does your child seem disinterested when you read books to him/her on the subject of divorce that otherwise seem helpful?

Would you like a tool that has been helpful to many children who move between Mom’s house and Dad’s house?

This children’s book may be just what you are looking for.

A mother of three wrote the following to her lawyer after receiving a copy of both the book and CD: “Thank you so much for the book CD. The kids and I listened to it tonight and they loved it.  Even our youngest sat still the entire time-her voice is very soothing.  Our 7 year old immediately said she feels just like Chip. Our five year old will take a little bit to think on it and will then comment.  I always empathized about their confusion and wanting both parents with them, but some of the feelings I just never thought about until listening to the story.”  

“During my years of working as a child therapist and later as a child specialist in the Collaborative Law Divorce field,  I became aware of the struggles that children experience living both at Mom’s house and Dad’s house following a separation or divorce.   Shuffling back and forth within a given week, month or year is one of the biggest adjustments kids are asked to make. Traveling between homes and parents causes children to experience a full range of feelings, some of them negative. Chip, The Puppy With Two Homes was written with this in mind. This metaphoric and therapeutic story (which never mentions divorce) offers children help for developing a positive adjustment to dealing with shared custody. While children are helpless at changing their new reality, they can develop healthy thinking patterns, perceptions, and behaviors about self and a new family situation.  This story is designed to tap into the child’s own inner resources and unconscious learnings that will empower each child to cope with this challenging situation in a healthy manner and ease his or her anxiety.  This story can ultimately help even the youngest reader find creative and healthy ways to navigate their own life that has been split in two and sometimes multiplied.”

                                                                                                                                - Jodi Hassler