This article first appeared in my column at The Faster Times: Emotional abuse of children during and after divorce proceedings is one of the most insidious and common problems we hear about from co-parents who contact us via CoParenting101.org. Emotional abuse is generally more difficult to prove than physical abuse, and family court judges and [...]
Please check out Deesha’s latest column at The Faster Times, “Co-Parenting, Narcissism, and Emotional Abuse of Children During & After Divorce” for strategies for dealing with a narcissistic co-parent.
Today’s my birthday, but the celebrating started yesterday. I went to drop off MiniMe and BabyGirl at their dad’s after they spent the long weekend with me and TechBooHusband. They said, “Since you’re here, can we give you your gifts early?” Why, of course you can! Well, I received several lovely and thoughtful gifts, as [...]
This post first appeared at CoParenting101.org. At first glance, what you see is just Sunday dinner. But perhaps what you can’t see are the ingredients that went into making this wonderful spread: time, attention, thought, patience, laughter, fun…and love. My (Deesha’s) oldest stepdaughter made sautéed greens (a method of preparing greens that I introduced her [...]
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Reactions to the news of former Vice President Al Gore and his wife Tipper’s separation have pretty much fallen into 3 categories of commentary: 1) “For crying out loud, after 40 years, they should have just stuck it out!”; 2) macro-level consideration and trendspotting along the lines of “Separation as an Iconic Baby Boom Act” [...]
I talk about co-parenting basics with Nadine Owens Burton, founder of The Power of CARE, in a recent interview.
I weighn in on this hot mess here.
So I wrote here about my Marriage 2.0, my way of identifying with the changing landscape of marriage and family in our culture. Well, yesterday, I got an email from my former mother-in-law, now mother-in-love. Somehow our wedding pictures got lost in the Internet ether, and I had to re-send them to her. Her reply: [...]
My latest at The Faster Times.