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Help! My Ex is Trying to Poison my Child Against me! What Can I do? (Pt 1)
Toxic parenting, which can refer to several different types of emotional abuse inflicted on kids by their parents, also includes the much-misunderstood “parental alienation”. Shaming your kids, blaming them for everything (including things they didn’t do or couldn’t control), and being extremely controlling and critical are all hallmarks of toxic parenting. But the particular poison…
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Is Your Kid Struggling With Your Divorce? Here’s How You Can Help. (Pt 2)
Welcome back and thanks for joining us again. We’ve been talking about the tools and strategies that divorcing parent have available to them, to help their kids cope with the whole process. Because let’s be real – it’s hard. It’s hard on parents and it’s hard on kids. Which is why you need all the…
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Is Your Kid Struggling With Your Divorce? Here’s How You Can Help. (Pt 1)
We get asked this a lot by parents who are planning a divorce, or caught up in the middle of a messy one. It’s a common concern that moms and dads have, and it should be – divorce is very hard on kids and they rarely come out the other side unchanged. But that doesn’t…
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My Ex And I Don’t Agree on Anything For Our Kids! How do I Change Their Parenting Style?
Unfortunately we’re going to have to start this blog off with bad news: you can’t. It’s not possible for one person to chance another, much less that person’s approach to parenting. Not unless the person being changed agrees to it. Because that right there is the crux of the matter – no one can be…
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Why is The Friend of The Court Involved in My Custody Case?
This is a question we’ve been asked many times over the years here in Michigan, by clients who are justifiably confused by the involvement of the Friend of The Court. After all, why would they be involved? Surely all you and your divorcing spouse need to figure this out is your respective lawyers and the…
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Apps Designed to Make Co-Parenting Easier For Divorced Parents (Pt 2)
Hi there and welcome back to our discussion on apps designed to make the co-parenting process easier for divorced folks with kids. As we mentioned in our previous article, there are loads of challenges faced by parents who co-parent after their divorces. But thankfully, there’s also a lot of tech that’s been designed in recent…
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Apps Designed to Make Co-Parenting Easier For Divorced Parents (Pt 1)
As if parenting isn’t hard enough already, trying to co-parent after a divorce has to be one of the hardest challenges you can tackle. (The scheduling coordination alone can feel like an impossible task!) But in this day and age, while there are loads of things to take into account, and lots of commitments to…
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Custody And Visitation Are All About Your Kids – So Keep The Focus on Them!
Sometimes, when the divorce gets to be too much, or the conflict between you and your ex gets out of hand, the issue of custody and visitation can sometimes become more about leverage than about the kids. We see this quite often here in Lansing and in the surrounding areas. Same old story in Charlotte,…
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Consistency is Key When Transitioning Kids Between Households
When parents split up and the kids end up bouncing between two households, it can create a lot of friction and stress for both families. Trying to keep up some kind of a routine and maintain consistency can be tough when you’re back and forth between two different homes and two different families. So we’d…
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Does Mental Health Affect Marriage, And Can it Lead to Divorce?
Your mental health, just like your physical health, has a massive impact on your daily life. It affects how you act, what you prioritize, the way you treat the people around you, and even how you feel about yourself. So it’s a no-brainer that metal health (just like physical health) will have an impact on…
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