A mom and a stepmom share stories, ideas, friendship and family
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 Quotes on Apr 9th, 2008
“When it comes to divorce, may happy extended families one day be the norm!” –Jennifer Newcomb Marine, No One’s the Bitch
Posted in Co-parenting on Apr 5th, 2008
By Jill Davis Doughtie
I have a theory about why we, as co-parents, don’t always see eye to eye about what’s best for the kids. I think we’re trying to give the kids the best of our own childhood experiences. We’re each building on what we remember from our own childhoods as being especially helpful, especially [...]
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 Play on Jan 17th, 2008
A little over a year ago, G and I bought ourselves World of Warcraft for Christmas. The kids were playing it, G wanted to play with them, and I wanted to get to know them better.
So I installed World of Warcraft, created a character and plunged in. At first, I couldn’t understand what I was [...]
Lisa Cohn’s A Stepfamily Christmas is that wacky, heartwarming, true story that I think we’ve all been hoping to find about ex-partners spending Christmas together for the sake of the kids and growing to love and enjoy it over time. Check it out. This story gives me even more faith that we’re doing the right [...]
Posted in Tips on Jan 5th, 2008
One of the building blocks of improvisational comedy is the “Yes, and…” rule. When improvising a scene, you accept and build on what your partner does. The quickest way to kill a scene is to block or deny a suggestion. “Yes, and” is about more than not blocking, though. It’s about co-creating or collaborating on [...]
A long time ago, a friend told me that the best parenting advice he’d ever been given was to say yes as much as possible to your child. An aunt of his had given him this advice when his baby was first born, and over the years he found himself noticing that he was often [...]
Posted in Books on Jan 2nd, 2008
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenberg
“Over and over again, it has been my experience that, from the moment people begin talking about what they need rather than what’s wrong with one another, the possibility of finding ways to meet everybody’s needs is greatly increased.” — Marshall Rosenburg, Nonviolent Communication
Nonviolent Communication [...]
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