Choosing Sides: Loyalty Conflicts in Co-Parenting
There are few things more heart-breaking than being rejected by your own child. This can happen to all parents from time to time, but can be especially impactful for co-parenting…
Building a Strong Home-School Connection: 3 Simple Steps for Co-Parents
Home and school: they’re two (often very) distinct spheres, but should they be kept separate? When you’re juggling all the responsibilities that come with co-parenting, you may feel like compartmentalizing…
Self-Reflection: The Key to Stepping Up Your Co-Parenting Game
Our mission at KohParenting is grounded in the importance of self-reflection and the key role it plays in co-parenting. Research demonstrates that it can increase effectiveness and satisfaction in parenting…
Not Your Parents’ Discipline: Does the Parenting of the Past Fit Your Needs Today?
“My parents did it that way, and I ended up just fine!” People often invoke these words to defend or justify their childrearing strategies or beliefs, or critique current practices…
Not Your Parents’ Discipline: How Parenting Has Changed Over the Years, and What It Means for Your Co-Parenting
“I want to do better for my kids,” and “I was raised that way, and I turned out fine!” These two statements represent two conflicting sides of a perennial debate…
It’s Hard to Say “Bye”: Co-Parenting and Separation Anxiety
The Gist Separation anxiety is distress or upset experienced by children and adults upon separation from each other. Typically, it impacts young children or their parents, but it can actually…
Back to School 2023: Our Top 5 Tips for Co-Parents
Back-to-school 2023 is charging toward us; are you ready to hop along for the ride, or do you find yourself dragging behind? If your child’s summer vacation is coming to…
Custody Exchange Series Part 2, Troubleshooting Resistance and Other Dilemmas
Last minute scheduling changes. No-shows. Heated conflict. Children crying and clinging. Does any of this sound familiar? Last week, we talked about our 4-step process for peaceful custody exchanges (Missed…
Custody Exchanges Done Right, Part I: 4 Steps To Execute a Peaceful Transition for your Child
Does watching your child go from your care to your ex’s and back again tear at your heart? Custody exchanges are typically an inescapable reality for most co-parents, whether through…
Co-Parenting on the Move: Mastering Transitions with Your Child
Transitions and co-parenting go hand-in-hand. First comes the initial transition from romantic partners to parenting partners. Then, countless others follow as families navigate their new dynamic. These changes are tough…