Divorce

Author’s Note: You hear about or see kids who are struggling with divorced parents. How hard it is on them and their life. “Nightshade” makes a real connection with kids all around about how hard it really is for these kids.

Many children, like myself, have divorced parents. In the book “NightShade” By Andrea Creamer, the author tells readers how hard it really is for these kids and their life being stuck in the middle of an endless or civil battle.

Kids go through many stages and may act very different every day. Most kids act like they are content with their life but the reality is that they are very sad and worried. That’s what happened to the main character, Natalie. Some kids take their worries to school and they don’t focus on their work and are depressed all day. That’s another thing that happened to the main character, she was always depressed and not focusing on her school work.  Other kids take notice of these actions and don’t say anything or even ask ‘what’s wrong?’ The parents have an affect on the kids emotions as well As you might know, this problem also affects their life in general.

Children are missing out on their childhood life because of their worries. Some also seem to blame one or both of the parents for the divorce. Kids start to hate their parents telling them that one of them wasn’t good enough to the other or they mistreated each other. Natalie did the same thing, she started to yell at her mom for the separation and to make matters worse, Natalie's friends sided with her! Friends also might interfere with your problem because they care.

Friends are a good thing to have when experiencing problems. Friends listen and they try to give positive feedback. When the Natalie was going through this, her friends helped her and tried to understand what she was going through. All friends might not want to know but most friends try. Just like my friends did; not all of them wanted to know but they cared. When I was going through the similar problem; my friends where always there and they saw how hard it really is to go through something like that.

I and many others have struggled with this little problem, but we manage to live through it and conquer the world and hope people understand.