RESOURCES
Books
Children
Blog
A Kid With Two Homes is a blog written for children by a child living in a coparenting family. The author, Bella created this resource to “provide an accessible, realistic and beneficial platform for kids who have experienced divorce, separation or family conflict.”
Books for adults
Cooperative Divorce
Conscious Uncoupling: 5 Steps to Living Happily Even After: How to Break Up in a Whole New Way by Katherine Woodward Thomas, MA, MFT
Coparenting
The Co-parents' Handbook: Raising Well-Adjusted, Resilient and Resourceful Kids in a Two-Home Family from Little Ones to Young Adults by Karen Bonnell
Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex A hands-on practical Guide to Communicating with a Difficult Ex-Spouse, by Julie Ross and Judy Corcoran
The Co-Parenting Survival Guide: Letting Go of Conflict after a Difficult Divorce, by Elizabeth Thayer and Jeffrey Zimmerman
Raising the Kid You Love with the Ex You Hate, by Edward Farber
Contemplating Divorce
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Tools to Help You Make Practical and Emotional Decisions When Thinking About Divorce, by Cherie Morris and Vicki Vollweiler
Divorce Coaching
Potomac Coaching provides personal divorce guidance and support.
Recompose Us is a wellness-informed alternative dispute resolution collaboration partnering with professionals who can help you create the mindset for success.
Bold Beginnings Support Group is a group program designed specifically for women going through the divorce journey.
Online Divorce Information Organization
SplitSmart is an online divorce tool to help couples organize financial and child issues so they can avoid most divorce expense and drama. The tool focuses on the human side of divorce to get couples organized so they can quickly reach an agreement with minimal expense. SplitSmart provides couples with a: marital worksheet, co-parenting plan, and an alternative approach to child support.
Podcasts
Coparent Dilemmas In each episode, coparenting experts answer listener questions and talk about the benefits and risks of Letting Go vs. Holding On to the conflict in a variety of complex topics facing coparents today.
The Tracey Coates Show will provide you with valuable insight into the inner workings of the legal process and what you need to know to transition from married to single life.
Advice
Survive Divorce provides up-to-date advice for navigating the divorce process.
Web Based Communication Tools
Raising healthy children requires a consistent and reliable means of communication. In every family, keeping track of activity schedules, health care, educational needs, social and emotional changes, and day-to-day triumphs and challenges is difficult. The difficulty is multiplied exponentially when raising children in two homes. Parents must communicate! Below are links to wonderful, web based communication tools that will allow parents to share information while minimizing the opportunities for conflict.
One Family Vault enables you to build the healthy co-parenting relationship that your child needs. In a safe, stress-free, and straightforward way.
2Houses.com helps parents organize schedules, send messages, keep track of activities, manage expenses, and easily exchange school and medical information. It also has a feature that helps parents manage to-do, and shopping lists. Additionally, it provides a place where parents can store important documents, photos and videos.
Coparently helps parents manage busy schedules, have less conversations to reduce conflict and keep children out of the middle without feeling overwhelmed.
Fayr helps parents create a better co-parenting experience by providing tools for: constructive communication, argument diffusion, and emotional support.
Coparenting Calendar for Kids
Mighty and Bright Co-parenting Calendars help young children adjust to changing schedules with an easy-to-use, customizable, fully magnetic and dry erase calendar kit.
Online Coparenting Workshops and Support
Even in the best circumstances, coparenting is difficult. Surrounding yourself with encouragement and information to support your unique parenting journey is important. Below is a link to fantastic online workshops to encourage you and keep you focused on your parenting goals.
Up To Parents is a free coparenting course that teaches separated and divorced parents how to build their better futures by focusing on meeting their children's needs.
Co-Parenting: What It Is and How We Do It
This 60-minute workshop breaks down the most pressing questions parents face as they begin to navigate co-parenting during separation and divorce.
Disclaimer: The information provided herein is for general informational and educational purposes only. It is not intended and should not be construed to constitute legal advice. Nothing contained herein should be relied on or acted upon without the benefit of legal advice based upon the particular facts and circumstances presented, and nothing herein should be construed otherwise.