Links for Tuesday, April 15
Apr 15th, 2008 by Jill
- Parenting Advice: Working It Out After Divorce – Co-Parenting As A Lifelong Process – “Children feel all the tension that exists between their divorced parents. And they often suffer when parents ignore this tension or act out from it. Children often feel ‘in the middle’ (and are sadly, too often placed in the middle when parents cannot contain or work through their disappointment, anger, fear, or hurt). And even when they are not placed in the middle, they still feel pain that their parents are treating one another with animosity, contempt, distrust, disrespect, anger or fear.” (more)
- Darlene Weyburne on DivorceMag: The Co-parenting Relationship – “Support your children in loving and building a relationship with the other parent. Never start a sentence with “If your father/mother really loved you…” Don’t allow your feelings…to interfere with your support of your children’s need to love and be loved by your former partner. Just as you’re able to love a new baby without loving your other children less, your children can love more than one parent… They’ll develop healthier relationships if they don’t have to choose between loving you and loving their other parent.” (more)
- That And Two Dimes: Fun and Games – A fun weekend at Aunt Pillowhead’s house: “[I]t seems we all have found a new comfortable place to enjoy each other, and it’s working. I’m really happy about that, and trying to just appreciate it while it lasts.” (more)
