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The Top 7 Best Co-Parenting Choices You Can Make
Whether you’re the parent or stepparent, co-parenting with an ex takes dedication and work. Here are seven of the best choices you can make to make it a little easier.
The only thing worse than breaking up is breaking up when you have kids. You’re stuck continuing to interact with someone you’d really rather not ever see again. Even if the breakup was amicable, there are likely still some hurt feelings and sensitive areas that can make co-parenting a little more difficult.
I asked seven moms for their best tips on creating a solid co-parenting relationship. Each of these women has a healthy, working co-parenting relationship with their own ex, and several are also stepmothers whose partners have healthy, working co-parenting relationships with theirs. They have all been co-parenting successfully for at least five years.
Here’s what they had to share.
(All names have been changed for privacy.)
Keep the kids’ best interests first and foremost
Shannon has three daughters with her ex, and her husband has a son and daughter with his. Her suggestion is, as she says, an obvious one. You need to put…
