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Here’s how you don’t break it to the kids. You don’t look at them and say, “You know what little Johnny, little Susie, your mother hates your father now so we are leaving him. You will get to see that idiot two weekends a month from now on, and that’s it.” Break the news like that and you can alienate your kids forever.

I am a product of a divorced home. Kids, no matter how old they are, they dream. If you’re going through a divorce while your kids are young, their biggest dream is to keep Mommy and Daddy together. Even early on, children want to have the perfect family.

via David Wygant: So You’re Getting Divorced. How Do You Break The News To The Kids?.