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Whether it’s 2020 or any other year, here are three tricks to make Halloween a treat for kids and co-parents.

In this article, learn about four tips for celebrating birthdays as co-parents which will help you enjoy the process and create great childhood memories for your kids.

Today, co-parents have a number of options to explore when it comes to where they and their children will live post-breakup. In this article, we take a look at the five options to help you decide which co-parent living arrangement is right for you.

Visit the Collaborative Co-parenting Community at HappilyDivorcedBook.com/contact to ask questions and share your struggles and triumphs.

School systems are not set up to handle divorced parents. It is up to co-parents to share information. It is particularly incumbent upon the residential parent to make this happen. Communication and sharing information about your child with the other parent is not only kind but helps your child’s other parent to be the kind of parent you want them to be.

Have I lost my mind? I’m happy to share with all of you that as of today, I am a full-time author, speaker, and all-around co-parenting advocate. My last day with JP Morgan Chase was August 30th. I’m so grateful for my Chase experience. It taught me that I am capable of so much more […]

Throughout Ian’s senior year of high school, Bob and I attended marching band concerts, rock-band performances, and senior banquets with our new partners, with grandparents, and all of us always sitting together. So when it came to celebrating graduation, why wouldn’t we plan one big party?

In his foreword, Bob talks about how me writing this book actually challenged the very foundation of our relationship as co-parents and friends.

At HappilyDivorcedBook.com I’ll share with you chapters from my book, interviews I’ve given, and insights on co-parenting that I stumble upon along the way. If you are a co-parent, a child of divorce, or a family member navigating a co-parenting, step-family, or blended family relationship, I’d love to hear your story too. Was your experience good or bad? What odd circumstances did you find yourself in and how did you come through it? What do you struggle with on these fronts?

For divorced people with children, the holidays serve up the added challenges of dividing time with the children between two parents, grandparents, and other extended family members and facing the devastation of missing out on precious memories with your child.  As parents, isn’t it our duty to create family traditions?  Yet that is very difficult to do when you’ve agreed to alternate holidays.  In this article I offer a preview of the Happily Divorced chapter “Happy Holidays – Are They Still Possible?