What is successful co-parenting?
- Creating a partnership where the goal is raising healthy, well-adjusted, stable children.
- Communicating in a non-blaming way.
- Working toward finding mutually satisfying solutions.
- Focusing on the children, and not each other.
- Focusing on the present, and not the past.
- Assuming a businesslike demeanor.
- Formalizing parenting roles and responsibilities.
- Eliminating all issues other than parenting.
- Establishing the goal of reaching an agreement, not winning.
- Working on building a new life separately.