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What is Conscious Co-Parenting?
Divorce can take its toll on all members of the family. Parents often worry that divorce will cause their children irreparable emotional harm. Parents need to be mindful of how they handle the many issues revolving around divorce so they make the process as easy for children as possible. One way to help kids through the separation and divorce period and beyond is with a technique called conscious co-parenting. Co-parenting is an arrangement of custody in which both parents share time with their children.
What is Conscious Co-Parenting?
Conscious co-parenting, also sometimes called conscious parenting, is an approach to parenting that requires parents to be present and mindful when caring for their children. It ensures that parents put the welfare and needs of their children as a top priority in their lives. It requires parents to work together with the same mindset to provide a safe and loving environment for their children. Conscious co-parenting may be an arrangement between separated, divorced, or unmarried parents.
Benefits of Conscious Co-Parenting
There are numerous benefits to adopting a conscious co-parenting approach. The children will benefit greatly from an approach where both parents are providing a harmonious parenting style. Kids will adapt more easily to the changes of separation and divorce when both parents are in agreement. Conscious co-parenting allows parents to provide a more harmonious environment for children. It gives children a balanced and peaceful home life with a united parental front.
Conscious Co-Parenting Tips
Parents need to work together in order for conscious co-parenting to work. Parents may need to seek counseling in order to resolve some of their prior issues and to learn how to better communicate with each other. Parents need to establish a professional relationship rather than a personal one. This will make it easier and less stressful to work with the other parent regarding the many issues regarding the kids.
- Communicate – Communication is the cornerstone of conscious co-parenting. Set a specific time every week to talk to the other parent about the children. Use these sessions only to discuss matters related to the kids and avoid getting caught up in personal issues.
- Create a Parenting Plan – Develop a parenting plan that works for everyone. A parenting plan helps you stay on track and provides a guide you can use for current and future matters. Once in place, make an effort to stick to the plan and do not take advantage of the other parent.
- Stay Focused on the Children – Always keep in mind that the children are your number one priority. Don’t let your ego or anger get in the way of allowing you to handle matters in the best interest of the kids. If you have disputes with the other parent, try to work them out away from the children.
- Work Through Problems – It is easy to parent when everything is rosy. However, there are often issues that arise that make parenting more challenging. Remember that you and the other parent should work together to make decisions rather than making them on your own.
- Present a Unified Front – One of the challenges of parenting after divorce is that children often play one parent against the other. Conscious co-parenting takes effort to ensure that both parents present a unified front, and this may require some compromises you make outside the presence of the kids.
Parenting through separation and divorce can be challenging. It is helpful to get help from an experienced family law attorney to make the process easier and less stressful. Contact us at Arnold & Smith, PLLC, at (704) 370-2828 to speak to our legal team.
The family law practice group at Arnold & Smith, PLLC includes four Board-Certified Family Law specialists and one Child Welfare Law specialist, as well as several attorneys with many years of family law experience that are committed to providing a powerful voice to individuals facing the often-tumultuous issues in this area of law. The range of issues our family law clients may be facing include pre- and post-nuptial agreements; separation agreements; post-separation support; child support (both temporary and permanent); absolute divorce; divorce from bed and board; military divorce; equitable distribution of assets; child custody (both temporary and permanent); retirement benefits and divorce; alimony and spousal support; adoption; and emancipation. Because this area of the law is usually emotionally charged and complicated, the family law attorneys at Arnold & Smith, PLLC act with the utmost dedication to ensure that each client understands his or her options, and then act to achieve the best result possible for that client’s particular situation.
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https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/parenting_plan
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