Category: Parenting After Divorce
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When You And Your ex Can’t Agree on Discipline Methods After The Divorce (Pt 2)
Welcome back and thanks for joining us. We’ve been looking at the issue of discipline, and how hard it can be when you and your ex have to co-parent your kids but can’t agree on what methods of discipline are best. If that sounds like your situation, then know that you’re not alone. Many divorced…
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When You And Your ex Can’t Agree on Discipline Methods After The Divorce (Pt 1)
Getting divorced is hard. Co-parenting after a divorce is hard. But trying to be a consistent and dedicated parent to your kids, year after year, while your ex undermines all of your parenting efforts is beyond challenging! Which is exactly what it feels like when you and your ex can’t come to terms on methods…
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Parenting Time: Making The Most of ‘Not Enough’ Time With Your Kids (Pt 2)
Welcome back. We’ve been talking about how difficult it can be to parent your kids when all you have is a few court-ordered hours each week. As we mentioned in the previous article, there are options available to you if you want more time with your kids. You don’t have to just accept whatever parenting…
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Parenting Time: Making The Most of ‘Not Enough’ Time With Your Kids (Pt 1)
We get it. The few hours of parenting time you’ve been given on one or two days a week just doesn’t seem like enough. You want more time with your kids, and who could blame you? (We certainly don’t – we’re parents, so we understand completely!) But here’s the fact of the matter – there…
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My ex is a Really Crappy Parent! What Can I do to Change Them? (Pt 2)
Hello and welcome back. We’ve been talking about the struggles parents face when they get divorced and have to co-parent with an ex they don’t like and don’t think is a good mom or dad to their kids. Unfortunately, as we explained in the previous article, you can’t change other people, the only person you…
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My ex is a Really Crappy Parent! What Can I do to Change Them? (Pt 1)
This is a question we hear a LOT! People who divorce their spouses because they can’t stand each other any more, battle it out over how gets the kids and how often, and then resent the fact that they have to coparent with an ex they despise. We get it. It’s an incredibly frustrating situation. …
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What Michigan Parents Need to Know About Interstate Custody.
Most Michigan parents who get divorced have to deal with the frustrations of custody agreements and parenting time orders at some point or another. But very few of them ever have to deal with the complexities of interstate custody – that is, figuring out a custody agreement that takes into account parents who live in…
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It’s Your First Summer Since The Divorce. So What Now? (Pt 1)
For people moving on in life after a divorce, they tend to encounter a lot of ‘firsts’ as they work to restructure their new life. The first Christmas since the divorce. You’re child’s first birthday since the divorce. And as we head into the month of June – the first summer since the divorce. It…
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Ways Your ex Can Alienate You From Your Kids’ Lives After a Divorce (Pt 2)
Hi there, and welcome back. We’ve been discussing the issue of parental alienation, and how your ex can manipulate your kids into changing their minds about how they feel for you. It sounds inconceivable, but it happens more often than you’d believe, and the results are truly tragic. In the previous article we discussed the…
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Ways Your ex Can Alienate You From Your Kids’ Lives After a Divorce (Pt 1)
If you follow our blog, then you’re already familiar with the reality of toxic parenting, and parental alienation syndrome (sometimes also called “malicious mother syndrome” or “malicious parent syndrome”) In essence, it’s when a child feels and expresses a very strong dislike (which can even manifest as hatred) for one of their parents, as a…