Triage for the New Long Distance Parent
For the first time ever, you are a parent without your child. For the first time, you feel a million miles way from them, even if you are really only…
For the first time ever, you are a parent without your child. For the first time, you feel a million miles way from them, even if you are really only…
A long distance parenting plan is an arrangement for how you will co-parent a child when one parent is not within close physical proximity. It is one part of a court order.
Maybe this is the hot ticket with older kids. The way to show support from a distance. To pitch in and help them with stuff that they want or need to do but could use some help doing it better or bigger or cooler. There are tons of those opportunities in upper middle school projects and definitely in high school and technology gives us a way to collaborate in a way we've never had before. Or maybe it's just one more tool to add to the toolkit of a long distance parent.
Your co-parenting relationship is key to long distance parenting. These books come recommended by seasoned long distance parents.
How to smooth out a co-parenting relationship with boundaries, empathy, compassion, nonviolent communication and leading by example.
And as much as I hate to admit that Microsoft might have goodness up it's sleeve, it looks like Xbox One could be an ace in the hole for long distance parents. It takes all of those things that kind of work in virtual visitation - and piles them all into one gaming console.