Tag: Parenting
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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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I’m Afraid my ex is Going to Kidnap Our Child! What Can I do? (Pt 1)
When you hear the term “kidnapping”, most parents tend to think about traffickers who snatch kids from playgrounds, or the people in certain South American countries who steal children from wealthy families and then ransom them back for millions of dollars. It sounds terrible, but like something that happens to other families – families who…
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Do I Still Have to Pay Child Support if my Kids Stay With me For The Summer? (Pt 2)
Hey there, and welcome back. We’ve been talking about a subject that hits hard for many parents during the summer season – the issue of taking on additional expenses because you’re now spending more time with your kids, but not being able to make smaller child support payments. As we mentioned in the previous article,…
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Separating Kids From Their Parents Causes Trauma! (Pt 2)
Welcome back and thanks for joining us for this discussion about how separation from their parents causes severe trauma for children. As we mentioned in the previous article, Harvard researchers have proven through numerous studies that toxic stress has detrimental effects on children’s mental and physical wellbeing. But that’s not all. They’ve also proved that…
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Separating Kids From Their Parents Causes Trauma! (Pt 1)
One of the greatest challenges faced by divorcing parents in Michigan is separation from their children. Ending a marriage often means you go from seeing your kids every day, to seeing them a few days out of each week, or worse – only a few hours every week. But what many people don’t realize is…
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It’s Your First Summer Since The Divorce. So What Now? (Pt 2)
Welcome back – we’ve been talking about some of the challenges newly single parents when that first summer rolls around since the divorce. As parents, you’ve already got a lot to think about, and now there are three months of no school to deal with!. In the previous article we looked at some cheaper vacation…