Co-parenting requires peaceful communication and coming to consensus on decisions related to raising children. If emotional conflicts make communication difficult, parents must make an effort to separate their feelings about each other from parenting issues. Thinking of the children as the focus and reason for co-parenting can provide motivation to work on communication and develop a clear, child-focused plan for decision making. Having a guide for decision making supports the main goal of co-parenting, which is providing a peaceful, stable environment for children of divorce.

1. Tips for Peaceful CoParenting

2. •An experienced child and family therapist, Miriam Galindo, PsyD, provides coparenting counseling through her private office in Irvine, California.
In addition, Miriam Galindo, PsyD, serves as a counselor with Families in
Transition, where she and Dr. Amy Stark provide a variety of co-parenting and
reunification courses.
Co-parenting, or shared parenting, refers to the process of collaboration
between divorced parties to raise their children.
A team-oriented practice, it requires peaceful communication and a willingness
to come to consensus on child-rearing decisions.

3. •If emotional conflicts have made this kind of communication difficult, the
parents may have to spend extra effort to keep their feelings about each other
away from the parenting.
A solid way to begin this process is to think of the children as the center of and
reason for co-parenting.
This provides the motivation to work on communication difficulties with the other
person.
In turn, it can help the parents to come up with a clearly delineated and childfocused plan for decision making.

4. •When the parents have a guide to which they can refer, decisions are more
likely to happen smoothly and consistently.
This supports the main goal of co-parenting, which is to provide a peaceful,
stable home environment for children of divorce.

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