Tools for Navigating Transitions in Your Family and Your Life
A blog for parents, families, and individuals going through life transitions
10 Tips for Coparents from a Coparenting Counselor
Coparenting Counseling will not heal the pain and hurt YOU FEEL from your divorce. You will need to do your own recovery and therapy for that to happen (and I hope that you do!), but Coparenting Counseling can be helpful in building a new relationship with your coparent. For kids of divorce, they have enough pain to deal with just getting over their family ending. Adding constant fighting to that pain is just not fair. For their sake, I urge you to get help if you need it, so your kids learn that divorce is NOT the final word to their family, as they knew it. There is hope for a new future and while their parents are no longer married they can get along, so everyone can move forward and have a better future.
What is coparenting? What isn't coparenting? Help!
Coparenting could be a new word for you, especially if you just entered the divorce world. It is a critical word if you have children of divorce. Divorced parents that have a successful coparenting relationship often find that their divorce has a smaller impact on their children than those divorces with high conflict. But if you are getting a divorce you will want to know what coparenting is and what it is not.