Mindfulness is an amazing tool that can be extraordinarily helpful in co-parenting. Here are just a couple of the many ways divorced co-parents need mindfulness.
It is not unusual for divorced co-parents to feel confused about how to answer children’s questions about divorce? Here are important guidelines. 1. Focus on
Co-parents often fight over what is in the children’s best interest. People throw around the phrase “in the best interest of the child” as if
Excerpt from “An Unexpected Journey: The Road to Power and Wisdom in Divorced Co-Parenting” Imagine that you have a given amount of energy to expend
You started out with good intentions. You partnered with someone. You decided to walk the path of parenthood, and you intended for it all to
Co-parenting, especially when there is conflict, is very emotional. Often, if not always, co-parents try to resolve issues when they’re in emotionally reactive states, and
We all want to be wise parents, but parenting is emotional business and if your emotions are out of control, you will be anything but
Our brains have what’s called a negativity bias. That is, our brains are much more likely to “take in” negative experience than positive experience. Neuropsychologist
“Disneyland co-parent” is the term that has been used to describe a divorced co-parent who indulges their children with gifts and vacations, without taking the
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