As a single parent who’s been divorced and co-parenting for ten years, I get asked fairly often about children and divorce:
How did my ex wife and I tell our children we were getting divorced?
How did our kids respond to the divorce news?
How have our children coped since the divorce?
I’m a divorced parent with some experience. [...]
A single mom named Stephanie recently left a comment on my post about divorced parents with one parent moving away.
Seems one day her 39-year-old husband admitted he was in an older man younger woman relationship, and left his wife and 18-month-old son to live in another country with his 21-year-old mistress. Sad and tragic, to [...]
I was getting out of the shower after a five-mile run when I heard the kitchen phone voicemail pick up. It was my ex-wife:
We’re coming by to pick up an iPod and a jacket before we go skiing this weekend. We’ll be there in five minutes.
No problem, my ex and I have a call-before coming [...]
My ex-wife has a huge family living in our area – parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews. Yet, in ten years of divorce, aside from one aunt and uncle who live nearby, I’ve never run into any of my ex-wife’s extended family unless the meeting was pre-arranged.
So it was weird as heck to be [...]
How did my ex-wife and I get to a place of amicable co-parenting? A newly divorced mom recently asked that question in a comment on a Dad’s House post, Co-parenting – How to Deal With an Ex.
The short answer:
My ex-wife and I simply decided to put the kids first, and our differences second. [...]
When children and divorce are concerned, the holidays take on a very different flavor. For instance, the other day my son asked if we’d be roasting a chicken for Thanksgiving.
“Is that what you want?” I asked.
“Yeah!” he said. “With roasted potatoes and yams. Like we made two years ago.”
That exchange might sound strange for someone [...]
There’s give and take in every relationship, whether you’re dating, married, or divorced.
When you have kids, a nice goal is to share the coparenting workload.
Tit for tat.
But what happens when the tit for tat reciprocation falls flat?
Head on over to the Hot Dads blog for a look at:
Tit for Tat Coparenting
(If that pre-programmed link doesn’t [...]
David Mott is a divorced single father of a teen daughter and son offering stories, tips and opinions on single parenting, coparenting children, two-home families, cooking, cocktails, self awareness - and relationships formed in an age of online dating, text messaging, and booty calls.
David Mott has appeared on ABC News Now video, CNN.com, CBS radio Los Angeles, Toronto Globe & Mail, McClatchy News syndication
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