Tag: Parenting
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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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How do I Help my Kids Work Through my Divorce? (Pt 3)
Hi there, welcome back and thanks for joining us again. We’ve been looking at all the different tools and strategies available to parents these days, whose kids need help working through the divorce. It can be a very challenging time for a family, and kids seem to have the hardest time. But you’re not alone,…
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How do I Help my Kids Work Through my Divorce? (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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How do I Help my Kids Work Through my Divorce? (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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Parental Alienation is Considered a Public Health Threat
Parental Alienation is when a child feels and expresses a very strong dislike (and sometimes even hatred) for one of their parents. It’s an issue that usually develops during or after a high conflict divorce, because of parental bullying and manipulation. However, it’s not the ‘hated’ parent who’s doing the bullying – it’s the other…
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Will LGBTQ Families be Able to Foster And Adopt in Michigan?
The issue of rights for LGBTQ people has been a spotlight issue in recent years. With the Supreme Court ruling that gay marriage was to be legalized across the nation, there was a corresponding surge in awareness of other LGBTQ issues. And here in Michigan, one of those concerns is the ability of gay couples…
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How to Break The News to Your Kids About The Divorce (Pt 2)
Hey there. Welcome back and thanks for joining us again. We’ve been talking about how to break the news to your kids once you’ve decided to get divorced, and how challenging this conversation can be for parents. If your children are extremely young it’s unlikely they’ll remember life before the transition, and if they’re already…
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How to Break The News to Your Kids About The Divorce (Pt 1)
There is nothing about getting divorced that’s easy, or simple. Dividing up your stuff and arguing over who gets to keep what is hard. Fighting over custody of your kids is very difficult. Coming up with the money to pay for the whole thing is a challenge. And having to create a whole new life…
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Does The Current Child Support System Needs Some Serious Overhauling? (Pt 2)
Welcome back and thanks for joining us for the wrap up on this chat about the current child support system. As we mentioned in the previous article, a few years ago there was an article published in the Boston Globe where correspondent Ruth Graham investigated the child support system as it exists today, and revealed…
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Does The Current Child Support System Needs Some Serious Overhauling? (Pt 1)
A lot of time and energy gets spent exposing the flaws in the child welfare system (as it should!) because, let’s face it – there’s enough wrong with that entire system to keep a thousand analysts working ’round the clock for years. But a similarly broken system that hardly gets a mention is the child…