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Working out a schedule to accommodate their children’s summer holidays can be a gruelling task for most divorced parents. Co-parents who can work together to meet the individual needs of their children are much more successful with formulating mutually agreed upon plans.

I do not believe in getting into power struggles with our children. The outcome of getting into a power struggle with our kids is actually a lose-lose proposition. We may win because we have more power, but we lose because the parent-child relationship suffers and we end up in a foul mood. In addition, if we try to win something we can't win ("You are not permitted to be friends with that boy."), we look pretty stupid. I love this example

Picky eaters have been frustrating parents in households across the world for years. This behavior often leads to temper tantrums and increasing anxiety in the home. When your child refuses to eat broccoli, it seems as if a war has started in your kitchen. Let’s start by defining our picky eater.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law on Tuesday, March 23, 2010. The complete details are not yet known as many of the provisions require sweeping overhauls to the way medical insurance has been sold and administered in the United States. As is common in bills of such a large magnitude affecting such a vast cross section of the American Public, this legislation will be enacted over a period of years beginning in June of 2010 and culminating with the final legislated change to take effect in 2018. Following is a summary of what I believe, at first glance, to be the most important portions of the reform for divorcing families.

Divorce can be a very tough decision for parents to come to, but it can be even more difficult to share the news with your children. So rather than guess, we posted this question to a bunch of family law professionals to see if there was a consensus or at least some guiding prinicples governing how parents should inform their kids about the divorce to minimize the impact.

 After nearly a decade of working with divorced and separated parents we have come up with tips based on experience to help you make joint custody arrangements work better.