Three-word Divorce Advice for Parents

Knoxville Divorce Lawyers — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:11:02 +0000

Here’s an interesting blog post that offers advice to divorcing parents in easy-to-remember 3-word phrases. The idea came from reading three-word tips for businesses and it was adapted for divorcees. Read the whole list or just a part of it below:

Divorce with dignity

Children come first

Business Like Communication

Co-parenting without conflict

Shield the children

Protect the children

Money wasted fighting

High conflict co-parenting

Divorce financial planning

Life after divorce

Shared parenting works

Keeping divorce friendly

Blended family success

Make co-parenting work

Empower divorced parents

Find parenting tools

Increase family peace

Children are priority

Avoid divorce conflict

winning co-parenting strategies

Parenting time schedules

Parenting time calendars

Even though divorce may seem like the end of the world, or at least the end of any type of meaningful relationship with the other parent of your child, it doesn’t necessarily have to be. By putting some of these ideas into practice you can often make the best of a bad situation.

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Divorce, Co-Parenting, and Remarriage

Knoxville Divorce Lawyers — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:43:14 +0000

When children are involved in a divorce it adds a whole new layer of complexity to the process. Post-divorce many ex-couples are busy trying to work out a co-parenting relationship for the kids’ sake. When one or both parents get remarried, however, the temptation to continue co-parenting at the expense of fostering the new relationships can often cause problems in the remarriage. Deesha at Coparenting 101 discusses this dilemma and shares a few ways to do it right:

In other words: Don’t sacrifice your marriage on the altar of your co-parenting efforts. And to that I say, “Amen and amen.”

Thankfully, neither “JB” (my fiancé) nor I have had any problems striking a balance between co-parenting with our former spouses and tending to our own relationship. But we realize that more is required of us than this. And, having both our first marriages end in divorce, we’ve been very purposeful about laying the groundwork for and nurturing a healthy, enduring relationship. This is what we want to model for four little not-so-little girls who mean everything to us. To this end, we’re following the “marriage is what you make of it” model, instead of the magical, fairytale “love is all we need model.”

Deesha makes an important connection that many former couples miss: when it comes to remarriage, it’s best for the new couple AND for the children if the new couple(s) have a great relationship. Even if this means the co-parenting of the former couple needs to take a back seat. Check out her blog for a lot of other great posts about co-parenting.

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Three-word Divorce Advice for Parents

Divorce, Co-Parenting, and Remarriage