How to Handle the Kids' Questions When You Are Still Hurting
Here is a truth no one warns you about: your children's hardest questions do not wait until you are healed. They come while the wound is still open,...
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Co-Parenting and Kids
Signs Your Child Needs Extra Support During a Divorce
Most children weather a divorce and, given time and steady love, come out the other side okay. Some sadness, some clinging, some anger, some off days: all of...
How to Co-Parent Without Losing Yourself
Co-parenting can quietly swallow you whole. Between managing schedules, absorbing your ex's moods, and pouring everything into steadying your kids, you can...
The Business-Relationship Approach to Co-Parenting
One of the most freeing ideas in life after divorce is also one of the simplest: you no longer have to relate to your ex as a spouse. The marriage is over,...
When Your Ex Has a New Partner: Talking to Your Kids
Few moments in a divorce sting quite like learning that your ex has someone new, and few are harder to navigate than when your children come home talking...
Helping Children Cope With Divorce at Every Age
Children do not experience divorce the way adults do, and they do not all experience it the same way as each other. A four-year-old, a nine-year-old, and a...
How to Answer Your Child's Hardest Questions About Divorce
Children have a way of asking the biggest questions at the smallest moments. In the car, at bedtime, in the middle of dinner, they look up and ask why Daddy...
How to Protect Your Kids From Divorce Conflict
When researchers and clinicians talk about what harms children in a divorce, the answer is rarely the divorce itself. It is the conflict around it. Children...
Co-Parenting With a Difficult Ex: A Survival Guide
Co-parenting is hard enough when both people are trying. When the other parent is difficult, when messages turn into arguments, when plans change without...