Below is a fantastic graphic about the cost of kids. I have four of them and can say, without a doubt they are expensive and worth every dime. They truly enrich my life.
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Four Steps to Take with Your Child After Divorce
Helping your children adjust after your divorce is essential. Heather Smith offers excellent advice on what you should do to help you child after the dust settles.
Here is Heather’s blog:
4 Steps to Take with Your Child After Divorce
You have sat your child down and given the dreaded speech that
Parental Planner: A New Communications Journal for Separated Parents
The Parental Planner is a new way for separated parents to communicate with one another. It is a essentially a communications journal that is passed between parents at the time of exchanging the children.
The advantage to using a communications journal is that it avoids face-to-face confrontations. You can also ensure all the pertinent information
Co-parenting Rules and Breathing
Parenting is not easy. Parenting when separated is even more difficult.
Mark A. Nacol, a Texas family law lawyer, in his blog Nacol Law Firm Blog does an excellent job describing the rules for effective co-parenting.
Mark’s list of rules may seem to be "common sense" but when you are the parent trying to
Who Drives The Children For Access Exchanges?
When you become a parent, nobody tells you that you will become a personal taxi driver for your children! You will drive them to their sports activities, their music lessons, their friends’ homes and, if you have separated from the other parent, you might have to do some driving to and from their other parent’s home.
Stay Connected With Your Children After Divorce With Facebook
Communication with teenagers can be difficult at the best of times. When you are separated, it can be even more difficult.
I am always looking for ways to be part of my teenagers’ lives. I enjoy Facebook and am friends with my three teenage boys on it. It gives me some insight into their lives
Keeping Healthy Boundaries While Co-Parenting
Co-parenting after divorce is not easy. It’s like walking a tight rope at first.
You want to be cooperative and communicate well but on the other hand how close is too close with your ex spouse?
Karen Buscemi wrote a great blog in the Huffington Post about keeping boundaries with your ex spouse. Karen says there are
Joint Parenting – A Blog by Two Parents
I just stumbled upon a wonderful new blog jointly authored by two parents sharing joint custody of their children. It is honest, heartfelt, insightful and engaging. The authors are New Yorkers Magda Pecsenye and Douglas French.
Their blog is called "When the Flame Goes Up" .
Here is an excerpt from a blog posting by the