Helping Children of Divorce When There Are 2 Homes

transitions11 • January 7, 2016

Co-Parents should help each other and the child make and keep established schedules. A helpful scheduling communication tool for co-parents is available online at “ Our Family Wizard ”. Rules for behavior, discipline and consequences should be as similar as possible in both households. Provide the child a specific “space to belong” in each residence such as their own bedroom. Co-parents should allow the child open communication with the other parent when they are not with them.

Tips for smooth transitions between households:

  1. Give the child a 15 minute reminder before they are to be picked up
  2. Keep exchanges quick and pleasant
  3. Exchanges are easiest when the child is retrieved from daycare, school or activities
  4. Clothing and belongings are often left at the other home so don’t make an issue of it
  5. Parents should always be on time to reduce the anxiety for the child, this reinforces that the child is important to the parent
  6. In an emergency or changes due to unforeseen circumstances co-parents should always communicate such to the other parent immediately
  7. Co-parents should communicate plans well in advance if it requires special clothing, transitional toys/blankets to be transported to the other

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