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Everyday Challenges

Decreasing Media’s Affect On Our Kids

Are children helpless observers, doomed to do all of the bad behaviors they have seen? No.
(1 minute 21 seconds read)

How To Teach the Important Lesson of “No” 

How can I teach my child the meaning of the word, “no”?
(1 minute 47 seconds read)

Why coParents Should Avoid Mirroring Bad Behavior 

Children learn what they live. This has been known for centuries. This works with the discovery of “mirror neurons.”
(1 minute 54 seconds read)

Leaving Your Marriage Due to Spousal Substance Abuse

If you are leaving your marriage because your spouse has a drug or alcohol problem, you have to assess whether your spouse presents a danger to your family.
(1 minute 5 seconds read)

Forming Supportive Friendships, During and After Divorce

Now is a critical time to surround yourself with people who demonstrate compassion. If you don’t have those people currently in your life, find them.
(2 minutes 42 seconds read time)

Healthy coParents Refuel One Another

Only evolution’s cruel genius would make the ultimate act of holding tight and the ultimate act of letting go one and the same.
(3 minutes 22 seconds read time)

Child-Focused coParenting 

I love this quote. “Let there be peace in my child’s life and let it begin with me.”
(1 minute 4 seconds read time)

How To Best Praise (Encourage) Your Child

Certain types of parental praise destroys a child’s self-esteem and chances of successful living as an adult.
(1 minute 23 seconds read time)

Smoothing the Transition of Moving Homes

There are ways to lessen the impact that a move has on the children.
(3 minutes 59 seconds read time)

Five Strategies of Self-Centered coParenting

Embrace the five hallmarks of Self-Centered Co-Parenting described below.
(1 minute 24 seconds read time)

Positive Emotions Are Contagious – What Children of Divorce Want

I believe that contagious emotions are far more powerful in children’s lives than anything that a parent or professional could say.
(2 minutes 24 seconds read time)

It Takes a Village, coParents

With or without an intimate partner, we all need many simultaneous supports. Many anchors. A village to hold us tight. Friends, family, colleagues and neighbors.
(2 minutes 36 seconds read time)

Quick Advice for Relaxed coParent Conversation

The next time you have a conversation, try tactics of relaxing, breathing and pausing. And taking time to analyze the silence.
(0 minutes 58 seconds read time)

A coParent’s Unified Approach to Negotiation

A negotiator can see the universe in one of two ways: as many separate, distinct parts randomly thrown together, or as one unified whole.

Transform Yourself to Learn Negotiation

One year, for my birthday, I wanted to do something novel. So I crossed the Brooklyn Bridge on foot. The bridge was conceived in the mid-1800s. It’s a wonder of architectural and graphic design, with a web of thick steel cables and two Gothic towers. It took the designer and engineer, John Roebling, nearly thirty […]