The focus of this series in on ways that divorced parents can develop positive co parenting relationships, which make the process of parenting children with an ex-partner much easier for everyone involved, especially the children. Having discussed the importance of not undermining your ex in front of your kids, structuring parent to parent communications and…

In this series on building positive co-parenting relationships after a divorce, we’ve already looked at the importance of not ‘trash-talking’ your ex in front of your children, and how to structure parent to parent communication. Moving forward, we are going to look at the next item on the list, namely how to go about making…

In the first installment in this series, we looked at one of the most important items on our list: addressing how to build a positive co-parenting relationship after a divorce, namely not undermining your ex in front of your kids. Moving on, we are going to look at the next item on the agenda –…

Divorce is hard. Everyone knows that, whether they’ve gone through the process themselves or not. Few things are more difficult than co parenting a child in the wake of a divorce. Two different households often means two sets of rules, two ways of doing things, two very dissimilar lives that don’t meet in the middle.…

The term “Children’s Bill of Rights” might make you think of an introduction to American Government class in middle school, or even the “Constitution for Kids” page on historyforkids.net. In fact, the Kid’s Bill of Rights is something very different, but equally important.   The children caught up in divorces have no control over the…

This is the fourth and final article in this mini series on breaking free from the chains of a toxic childhood and becoming a better parent. In the first three segments we covered a wide range of “toxic messages” that parents can send during divorce and custody battles, and their corresponding “healthy truths.” In this…

Having been raised by a toxic parent who alienated you from your other parent after a divorce, it can be a challenge to parent your own children.  The reason for this, in part, is because no good example of parenting was set for you, but also because a child raised in a toxic environment tends…

In this series, we are looking at the damaging effects of parental alienation after divorce, which also known as toxic parenting, and talked about the ways that you can overcome the damaging messages of a toxic childhood.   In the previous article, we talked about the importance of breaking away from the toxic messages of…

There are many scholarly articles out there on the impact that toxic parenting has on the relationship between the slandered parent and their children in the wake of a divorce or custody battle. But little is said about the long-term impact on those children after they have grown up and become parents themselves. Or on…