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When Is Good

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 [...]

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“When it comes to divorce, may happy extended families one day be the norm!” –Jennifer Newcomb Marine, No One’s the Bitch

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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 [...]

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Five gazillion places to go, one map

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. [...]

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Two houses, one spreadsheet

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 [...]

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