Co-parenting

  If you’re writing a parenting plan, now is an ideal time to comprehensively address issues affecting your child’s future. Imagining hypothetical scenarios, coming up with solutions, and proposing them to the other parent — all this…

  First, let me start by stating that this is not a letter to my ex-husband. It isn’t a bash and thrash of ex-husbands either. Ex-husbands come in all shapes and sizes and have all sorts of attitudes and mentalities. But they all have…

2 Co-Parenting Styles That Keep Your Children Out Of The Middle Of Your Divorce…

A really really hard part about getting divorced with young kids, is helping them adapt to going from Mom’s house to Dad’s house and back. It’s brutal, and I can still vividly remember how much it hurt, watching my kids at 3 and 5 try…

  Managing kids’ screen time is a thorny issue for any parent, but it can be especially challenging when you’re co-parenting. When your child’s time is split between two households, coordinating your screen time policies can be tough…

  Take a look at this list. Does any of it sound familiar? Your co-parent is still controlling, harassing, or using manipulation with you Your co-parent is extra uncooperative, accusatory, confrontational, or trashing you A new partner…

  When a couple decides to separate, the first thing that comes to their mind is how their separation is going to impact their kids. Sometimes they try to stay together for the sake of their children but for some couples, divorce…

  You can co-parent effectively after divorce or separation — if you are aware of some of the common pitfalls that get in the way. Mediator Erik Wheeler offers tips from his practice on how to have good communication with the other…

  According to Alan Kemp in his book Abuse in the Family, domestic violence is defined as “A form of maltreatment perpetrated by a person with whom the victim has or had a close personal relationship.” Furthermore, the clinical and…

  Welcome to the world of co-parenting, where so many emotions, feelings, and thoughts get wrapped up in one little word! It is normal to find it easy to relate and communicate with some people and harder with others. For most of us,…