Long Distance Parenting on the Journey Beyond Divorce Podcast
Long distance parenting and distanceparent.org (and me) is in a podcast! Karen McMahon of Journey Beyond Divorce reached out to me some time last year about the possibility of doing…
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.
The One Thing Long Distance Parents Wish you Knew
I asked the group recently "if there is one thing you wish people who are NOT long distance parents knew about long distance parenting, what would it be?". Sometimes Facebook…
Covid-19 and Long Distance Parenting Visitation
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,…
How Having a Distance Parent Affects a Child
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…
Coronavirus, Travel, and Long Distance Parents
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…
What Long Distance Parenting Is and Is Not
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.