Consider this your long distance parenting information buffet. Long distance parenting is such a vast topic. There are three or more people involved, court cases, and situation specifics. All moving through months and years together. It’s not a read once and done kind of thing. It’s an experience you live that changes as time goes on.
Invariably, over time, something develops in your case or your relationship with your co-parent. Your child ages and is responding differently. It’s the holidays and what do you buy that will help your relationship? You’ve been feeling a little glum about it lately – how can you change that?
The posts in this section are sometimes specific to a particular situation and sometimes about general long distance parent related stuff.
Remember the good ole days of eating at restaurants, indoors? Of leisurely walking the isles of a grocery store to browse, accidentally bumping into someone, smiling and saying hello? Yeah,…
I stopped doing my happy dance just to write this post. Finally, at long last, I found it! There is some real scientific evidence on how having a long distance…
So, COVID-19 is now a pandemic. That means discouraging travel and travel restrictions, among other things. This has long distance parents asking "what about my visitation?". Coronavirus and travel has…
Parenting is hard and it's full of tough decisions from birth and even past the time that the kid(s) are adults. The decision to be at a distance from a child is a valid or even necessary option sometimes and is one of the single toughest decisions to make. Long distance parents are not deadbeats or abandoning their kids. In fact, the decision to be apart from a child is just the first step of the tough road that they navigate to maintain a loving relationship with the child.
What the effects of long distance parenting on a child might be. Links to scientific evidence, and anecdotal evidence from long distance parents.
During my (almost 20 years - yikes!) journey gathering community around long distance parenting, I’ve read and seen a lot of things regarding divorce, child custody, non-custodial parents, deadbeat parents…