Co-Parenting During The Holidays

Co-parenting at any time can be a challenge. During holidays and other special times, it can be especially difficult. When a marriage is intact, it is often the case that parents divide activities and responsibilities regarding the children, such as school transportation, and extracurricular or holiday activities. Once the parents divorce, the division of these parenting activities needs to be reallocated with each parenting usually being responsible for all of these arrangements during their parenting time with the children. And where are the children in this shift? Often they are left without the familiarity of holidays, friends and family because one or the other parent does not know how or even what was done in the past since those arrangements may have been left to the other parent.

A real earmark of coparenting is keeping the children and their lives as normal and undisturbed as possible following a divorce. Sounds easy, right? Wrong. It takes planning, putting yourself aside and sharing information and ideas. The University of Washington created a list of religious holidays for spring 2019.

Spring 2019