Are You Headed For A Divorce?

… and don’t know how to handle your toddler, his questions and emotions? Read on to know more..

Divorce proceedings are always messy. More so, when there is someone as young as a toddler involved. Alas, as parents, you are so consumed in not letting your soon-to-be ex-spouse get the better of you that unintentionally, you could sideline your child’s emotional needs. Your toddler can grasp that all is not well when he sees the constant bickering and sudden absence of a parent in the house.

Deepa Gupta noticed major behavioural changes in her four-year-old daughter Sheila after her divorce. Her divorce proceedings went on for three years, of which, for an entire year, her ex-husband refused to let her meet her daughter. “I finally won the custody battle and soon found out that Sheila had become a loner at school and her grades had fallen. She had become physically weak with complaints of recurring acidity and bed-wetting. I tried so hard to make her feel loved again. I also had to send her for counselling. Soon, she started opening up on how her father would beat her for small mistakes and would always order in, (hence, the acidity). He would drop her off late to school because of which she was always punished. She has unnecessarily been made a scapegoat in this divorce drama! Today, my child is back to normal and my ex-husband has been warned to treat her well,” she avers.