Tag: co-parent

  • UNPACKING PARENTAL ALIENATION WITH CHILDREN IN MIND

    UNPACKING PARENTAL ALIENATION WITH CHILDREN IN MIND

    The feelings of children needing to split their loyalties with their parents may begin during the parents’ relationship or marriage.

  • Are Co-Parents Teaching Resilience?

    Are Co-Parents Teaching Resilience?

    As more and more children experience high-conflict co-parenting, they not only get caught in the middle of conflict, but also in the middle of coddling. Why are high-conflict co-parents prone to coddling their children? Because they fear not being the preferred parent. They honestly fear losing their children to the wiles and ways of the…

  • Kids Benefit from Different Parents

    Kids Benefit from Different Parents

    There is an almost universal concept in parenting. I say almost since there’s usually an exception to the rule, but I haven’t yet seen it. Whether different sex or same-sex couples, the assumption seems to hold — no two parents are alike. In my experience, parents seem to be attracted to one another in the…