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I am a single mother with four children. I have a 12 year old son and a 10 year old daughter who live with their father. Then I have two young daughters, 19 months and two weeks old that live with me.

Parenting & Pregnancy > Helping Kids Cope Tips for dealing with tears, yours and the kids'

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When you have a major change in the home, you have to deal with the emotions of the situation. Dealing with the tears, not only your own but those of your children, can be a very difficult thing. You need to look at it almost as if you were dealing with a death. Because you really are experiencing the death of your relationship with your mate. You have to face the fact that there is a great loss for you as well as your children. You are losing your partner for whatever reason and you reasonably need to grieve that loss. You have to make time when the children aren't around so you can go th...

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