Split In Two: Keeping it Together When Your Parents Live Apart

by Karen Buscemi

A nuts-and-bolts survival guide for teens living in a dual custody arrangement, this practical yet humorous self-help book is packed with tips and strategies to help teens deal with the frustrations of life in two households.  

Providing teens who shuffle between two residences on a regular basis with constructive information, this resource helps increase self-reliance, build self-confidence, and improve organizational and communication skills. Including advice on how to better organize scattered school work, make two bedrooms livable, negotiate curfews with different parents, and manage money for greater financial independence, this useful guide will help teens living in two homes feel like one person again.

Genres: Young Adult, Divorce

120 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2009

About the author

Karen Buscemi lives in Rochester Hills with her husband, two sons, and one uncoordinated cat. She's a longtime writer and editor, painter and photographer.

She has authored the novels All That We Hide (Starryeyed Press), The Makeover (Starryeyed Press), Saturday Nights at the God Cafe (CreateSpace), and two nonfiction titles: Split In Two: Keeping It Together When Your Parents Live Apart (Orange Avenue Publishing/Zest Books); and I Do, Part 2: How to Survive Divorce, Co-Parent Your Kids, and Blend Your Families Without Losing Your Mind (Norlights Press).

She's also had articles published in Women’s Health, Self, The Huffington Post, Figure, Successful Living and The Detroit News. As a former magazine editor, Karen made many appearances on metro Detroit news shows to talk about fashion, and even gave a TEDx talk.

Reviews

[NCHS Library]

From Follett: Become more organized, travel back and forth with less stress, make both homes feel homey"--Front cover frame. A guide to help teenagers navigate the complexities of a dual custody situation in which they live in two households, with tips to help increase self-reliance, confidence, and organizational and communication skills.

[Michael Lawson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really appreciate what Karen did. A lot of people don't realize that not only parents, but kids suffer through divorce as well. The tips are extremely helpful to me and I would definitely recommend this to anyone who parents are divorced/divorcing.

[Avery]

good for me because i'm going through this right now and it help a little

[Erin Forson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Split in Two: Keeping it Together When Your Parents Live Apart
by Karen Buscemi
Who knew that divorce would change the children's lives just as much as it changes the lives of the parents? I bet many of you did! This skinny little book is a must-read for anyone who has to shuffle back and forth between two houses because of a divorce. With tips for packing, bargaining with your parents, protecting your own social life, increasing your cash flow, and making your room (in both houses) home, no child of divorced parents should go without it. It's funny, too, because there are goofy comic strips and letters from teens who've lived the nightmare to illustrate the ideas in each chapter. While every word may not apply to your particular situation, there's plenty of sage advice to pass along.

[Phil · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was awesome. I thought it was cool how the book had actual kids tell you their experiences and thoughts. This book wasn't very long but it sure gave me a lot of information. I actually used the stuff in the book in my life. I recommend this book to any kid who's parents are going through divorce.a

[Bunny · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thank you so much to ZEST BOOKS for sending me a copy of this. We are going through a divorce this year, so the timing couldn't have been more perfect.

This is a quick little book - about 30 minutes from cover to cover - full of "tips", "what to expects", and "how to deals".

I think its a great tool for my kids (and tool for ME so I can help them through, too!)

[Aneesa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not sure why I read this book, but I did.

[Vicky del Rio · Rating 3 out of 5]

Honestly I thought that it was a cartoon, but it is really about tips for divorced parent kids.

[Jay · Rating 4 out of 5]

I bought this book at the book fair at my school and really liked it. I'd reccomend this book to anybody ages 11-18 that are going through Parent Divorce