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A second voicemail from Lydia illuminates a common issue -- a child who acts one way at home, but quite differently on a phone call while at the other parent's home. What is really going on here? Diane and Rick discuss the phenomenon of the Chameleon Effect in children of divorce.

Read more about the chameleon effect on children in the book, Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce  by Elizabeth Marquardt

More resources about child development and divorce:
—DEVELOPMENTAL NEEDS OF CHILDREN OF DIVORCE
—AGES AND STAGES: HOW TO MONITOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT
—CHILD DEVELOPMENT: MILESTONES AND PARENTING TIPS

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