Practical Ideas for Christmas and New Year’s The holiday season can be a joyful yet challenging time for separated or divorced co-parents. Sharing holiday time with your children during these special moments requires flexibility, understanding, and a focus on what’s best for the kids. Here are some creative and thoughtful ways
Why “Respect” in Co-Parenting is Important? Co-parenting is a partnership that requires shared effort, communication, and compromise to successfully raise children in a loving and supportive environment, especially after separation and divorce. A key component of the co-parenting partnership is respect. Respectful co-parenting not only fosters a healthier relationship between
The holiday season, often a time for joy and togetherness, can also bring challenges for co-parents as they navigate shared parenting responsibilities. Successfully co-parenting during Christmas and New Years, when the children are home, requires communication, flexibility, and a focus on the children’s well-being. By prioritizing these three important needs,
When parents separate, children often become confused, angry or withdrawn. Some kids feel lost and hopeless while others feel relieved. Each child will react differently. How a child is told or finds out their parent’s are separating, is important. How they feel about themselves and how mature they are, may
Children have the right to expect their parents to fulfill their responsibilities. This Children’s Bill of Rights will help guide you during your separation or divorce. Children have the right to be loved and to love both their parents, without feeling guilty, pressured, disapproved or rejected about seeing their mom
Insights From A Family Mediator As a Family Mediator I’ve witnessed firsthand the complexities that arise when Co-Parents try to discuss their child(ren)’s special expenses and the repayment of those expenses. Special expenses, which encompass extracurricular activities, prescriptions, dental fees, therapy expenses, educational needs, etc., often require collaborative decision-making and
