EP: 100 Julie Ross Co-Parenting to Protect Your Children During Divorce If your child comes home complaining about your ex-spouse, it can be incredibly difficult not to react. You want to intervene, to defend your child. And your instinct is to address the issue with the other parent right away. But what if that puts […]
EP: 093 Barbara Rothberg Helping Teens Cope with Divorce & Adapt to Blended Families Divorce is never easy on the kids involved, but the process can be particularly fraught for teenagers. How does divorce impact teens differently than younger children? What is the best way to customize a parenting plan for teens? And how can […]
EP: 085 Shara Goldfarb How Divorce Litigation Impacts Children Divorce litigation changes kids, and the attorney for the child witnesses this change firsthand. In contested custody matters, children watch the conflict between their parents play out in court—and no good comes from it. Some of these cases drag on for years, and the circumstances are […]
EP: 077 Dr. Amy J. L. Baker Navigating the Waters of Parental Alienation If you are the targeted parent in a case of parental alienation, it is easy to default to defensiveness. But responding with righteous indignation is actually counterproductive, making you look anxious, agitated and afraid. So, how can you approach the situation in […]
EP: 076 Gloria DeGaetano A Strengths-Based Approach to Parenting Through Divorce How do you approach challenging situations? The coaching model popular in the business world takes a strengths-based approach, leveraging what employees are good at to tackle complex problems. What if we used a similar strategy as parents, leading with our strengths in difficult circumstances? […]
EP: 074 Dr. Mark Banschick Protecting Your Kids with Intelligent Divorce Is there a way to protect your child’s innocence during the divorce process? What strategies can you use to parent well in the midst of such a difficult time? The Intelligent Divorce offers couples an approach to separation and divorce that prevents damage to […]
EP: 071 Dr. Jeremy Gaies The 6 Keys to Mindful Co-Parenting There is a lot of guilt and shame associated with divorce, especially when it comes to our kids. We worry about how the experience will impact our children long-term and wonder if it’s even possible to communicate effectively as co-parents—when a breakdown in communication […]
EP: 070 Richard Heller The Benefits of Coaching for Divorcing Dads Many dads of divorce fear that they will be completely cut off from their children. They may also have difficulty navigating the shift in their relationships with both their kids and their co-parents in the aftermath of divorce. How can a coach support men […]
EP: 062 Jean McBride Navigating Your New Role as a Stepparent Being a stepparent is tricky. How do you get involved in your stepchildren’s lives without overstepping? How do you go about disciplining a stepchild? How do you approach the holidays? Stepfamilies do have their benefits but taking on the role of a stepparent is […]
EP: 059 Monique Honaman Changing the Cultural Narrative Around Stepparents and Blended Families Stepparents tend to get a bad rap. Odds are, your first encounter with the role was through the archetype of an evil stepmother in a fairy tale like Cinderella. The cultural narrative depicts stepparents as a negative force in the life of […]