Five Ways to Keep Connected with Your Ki...

After a divorce, it's so important for you to strengthen your bond with your children during this time of transition – whether you are living with them or apart. Here's how ...

Child-Centered Divorce, Parenting After Divorce

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Consistent Co-parenting Makes Life Easier for Children after Divorce

Parenting after divorce takes patience, cooperation and collaboration. It’s not uncommon for one parent to notice behavior differences in their children when they return from a stay with their other parent. This can be extremely frustrating or irritating, especially if your values and parenting style doesn’t match that of your former spouse. What can you do to remedy the situation? Try having a conversation about how inconsistencies affect your children after divorce – and see if you can come to a better understanding. Consistency in parenting creates the smoothest transition after divorce – and in the years that follow. If the rules previously established in your home are still followed by both parents after the divorce, the children are likely to more easily adjust to the new transitions in their life. In families where Mom and Dad dramatically disagree about significant parenting decisions, the consequences can be disturbing and sometimes

Child-Centered Divorce

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Divorcing Parents: Don’t Bring Your Battles to Court

You’re getting divorced and you’re angry, resentful, hurt, vindictive or any combination of other painful emotions. You want to lash out, to get back at your spouse or boost your own sense of esteem. Hiring the most aggressive litigious divorce lawyer you can find seems like your smartest choice. Your ex is in for a fight! If you’re a parent who is thinking along those lines, you’re making a choice you may long regret. If you choose a lawyer who directs you straight into a vicious court battle, the costs to you will be insurmountable – not only in financial outlay, but in emotional turmoil as well. Think long and hard before you move your divorce battle into the legal system. It is likely to take its toll on every member of your family – including your children – in the most destructive and gut-wrenching ways. It happens all the

Child-Centered Divorce

It was a valuable month of insights and education for the parents who participated in the activities presented during National Child-Centered Divorce Month in July. Parents were invited to receive a host of useful free gifts from divorce experts throughout North America. The gifts included complimentary coaching sessions, ebooks on topics related to divorce and families, audio seminars and more. In addition, divorce attorneys, mediators, financial analysts, coaches, authors and other professionals shared their expertise through a series of free teleseminars offered weekly during July. Missed any of these outstanding calls? I am making the links to the audio recordings of the teleseminars available to any divorced parents and professionals who didn’t hear them the first time around. The teleseminar titles are listed below: July 8: Finding the “gift” in Your Divorce July 14: Creating a win/win Child-Centered Divorce July 21: Healthy Transitioning Beyond Divorce July 28: Keys to Making

Child-Centered Divorce

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