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Parents Are Forever: A Step-By-Step Guide to Becoming Successful Coparents After Divorce
This book is primarily a parenting guide, but it is also a book about recovery. Those of you who are adjusting well to your separation may find yourselves moving quickly through Parts I and II in order to get to Part III, which is specific and direct about dividing parenting time and arranging other aspects of your child's new life. The most valuable way to use this book, however, is to read it from beginning to end. Parts I and II outline the basis for the negative feelings that are felt in varying degrees by almost every separated mother and father. If you go through the steps in progression they will help you see why the most important task you have ahead is to learn to get along with your former partner.
168 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 1996
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January 13, 2018
Parents are Forever presents a great concept for co-parenting. It uses the analogy of owning a business together with your (ex) partner to show how people should co-parent. Parents who work together to care for their children after divorce become co-parents. No matter how ex-spouses feel about each other personally, co-parents who want to be successful ACT reasonably. This book suggests that parents should attend formal meetings where child-related issues are discussed. This concept requires healthy negotiating, which requires proper distance and respect for one another. The book provides an example for proper business meeting structure and a checklist of discussion points that need to be discussed. I give this book five stars for parents that are serious about successful co-parenting. This book has reasonable advice, like the fact that you will have to accept an un-perfect result, which is important, because after all, divorce is an imperfect result to begin with. I like the concepts in this book so much that I often formally recommend (in my GAL report) that parents read this book in cases where I am acting as a GAL.
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