VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – Author Kimberly King has updated a new edition of When Your Parents Divorce to include sage advice for parents and kids in a newly designed format. Click on the Illustration for more information and reviews.No parent wants to impart stress or anxietyin the hearts and minds of children. But many parents do not understand the severe impact their negative words, even if very small and subtle, have on children. These negative comments and attitudes can easily turn into ParentAlienation. Kimberly King wrote WhenYourParentsDivorce from both personal experience and the perspective of an educator. The newly published story is written in child-friendly language and aims to reduce stress and increase understanding for children and parents during this stressful time. WhenYourParentsDivorce is a guide for children to learn how to better understand the terms and process of divorce. While, at the same time provides therapeutic talking points and an interactive journal exercises. Topics of parent alienation prevention strategies are discussed, and new guidelines are modeled for positive parenting during a divorce. Giving children and parents these helpful strategies and tools for positive communication, reminds everyone to proceed with care during this transitional time.Building a collaborative and cooperative framework for the new family structure, that promotes flexibility and communication, is key for everyone in the family. It is possible to avoid and even eliminate a great deal of stress and anxiety that a divorce can bring to children by integrating the strategies discussed in WhenYourParentsDivorce. * * * * **According to the Parent Alienation Awareness Group (PAAO), “Parental alienation is a group of behaviors that are damaging to children's mental and emotional well-being, and can interfere with a relationship of a child and either parent. These behaviors whether verbal or non-verbal, cause a child to be mentally manipulated or bullied into believing a loving parent is the cause of all their problems, and/or the enemy, to be feared, hated, disrespected and/or avoided.” Parent Alienation is devastating to children and families, and it is illegal in most states.