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Posted in Logistics on Jun 27th, 2008
Check out TechCrunch’s review of When Is Good, a free online tool that helps groups of people choose meeting times by letting them all highlight the dates and times that work for each of them.
This looks like it could be handy for scheduling all kinds of co-parenting things from phone calls to doctors’ appointments to [...]
Posted in Logistics on Apr 3rd, 2008
By Jill Davis Doughtie
When I first got involved in helping the kids navigate through their daily lives, there were so many friends and appointments and lessons that it was hard for me to remember where they all were, or even to keep track of all of the addresses. So, I created a private Google map. [...]
Posted in Logistics on Apr 1st, 2008
By Jill Davis Doughtie
To keep track of expenses that we split between the houses, we went to Google Documents and created a shared spreadsheet. Whenever one house pays an expense we’ve agreed to split between houses, that house enters the expense into the spreadsheet. Every so often we tally up what we owe each other [...]
Posted in Communication, Logistics, Tips on Dec 4th, 2007
In addition to our single email address, we’ve also set up a shared online calendar. We use Google Calendar, which lets us use as many color-coded sub-calendars as we like, with individual levels of privacy and editing rights. If seeing all of the calendars becomes too overwhelming, we can check a box to display or [...]
Posted in Communication, Logistics, Tips on Nov 4th, 2007
By Katherine Shirek Doughtie
When trying to run childrens’ lives from two separate addresses, good communication makes all the difference. During the period of time when we were working out our boundary issues, communication was at an all time low and it was hellacious. Bits of logistics were exchanged between me and the kid’s [...]
Posted in Communication, Logistics on Nov 2nd, 2007
The Doughtie Houses Exchange (The DHX) was originally the name we gave the envelopes we’d send with the kids in their backpacks to deliver to the other house. (Don’t worry — this isn’t our only method of communication. We also talk on the phone and email constantly.) But our kid-mail system was symbolic for both [...]
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