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How To Make Summer Co-Parenting a Breeze
Winter, spring, summer and fall, sharing kids with an ex is bound to have its challenges but summer may be particularly tricky as some parenting plans only broadly address extracurriculars and do not speak to the specifics of summer. It’s unfortunate as summer vacation brings forth an array of opportunities for families to create lasting memories and have fun during a time of year where pressure is lower. Don’t make this mistake. This post lists out six questions to address in your summer custody schedule and parenting plan.
Five Tips for a Smooth Transition Between Two Homes
Helping your children transition between two homes after divorce is essential in promoting as healthy a dynamic as possible and reducing the emotional strain of divorce. As divorced parents, we are often given the advice to strive for a business-like relationship with an ex. This applies to everything from communication to operations. Streamlining the process by which you hand your children off to your ex can be viewed as conducting business.
Do You Have a Happy Place?
My suitcase is packed, ready to return to my girls refreshed, and with all kinds of goodness to inspire the mental journey to my happy place. Let’s face it, with the challenges of single parenting, coparenting and navigating the realities of divorce, I will be drawing on this useful cognitive tool a lot.
Emotional Regulation During Divorce and it’s Aftermath
I wound up as a single-parent in my early forties, out-numbered by button-pushing, tantrummy and back-talking little humans, triggered by them and triggered by their other parent. It became essential to have coping mechanisms on hand to control my rising temper, especially since the responsibility of modeling mature behavior mostly fell onto me as their primary caregiver.