What is Parenting Coordination
Parents rarely move from conflictual to cooperative behavior - without first going through a step of disengagement.
When a Parenting Coordinator
Half of all divorcing couples
in moderate to high conflict will still be clashing three to four years later.
Who is a Parenting Coordinator
Not an authority in just one, a parenting coordinator possesses realistic insight, experience and knowledge in several disciplines.
Why a Parenting Coordinator
If there is one constant in a conflict ridden divorced family, it is change. At times, obtaining another agreement on something as simple as a Parent Teacher conference date is a process that often seems as capricious as the weather. Coping with new changes of life styles demands a different parenting paradigm - cooperative co-parenting.
Parents going through a divorce can have a great deal of difficulty with making and keeping agreements - co parenting can become exceedingly difficult.
Mediation has become effective in reducing conflict at the time of the divorce, but is not successful in facilitating long term co-parenting. Adversarial legal remedies are costly and rarely produces sustained cooperation. Neither process protects children from long term divorce issues.
Essential to minimizing the children's exposure to continual conflict is a successfully implemented PARENTING PLAN. Restructuring communication routines, assessing long held expectations, setting exact boundaries, and adapting to changing children's needs, are but a few of the talents essential for preserving a cooperative co-parenting relationship.
The parenting coordinator focuses the parents on solving issues that best meet the children's needs and assists them in creating a living 'Parenting Plan' within a well structured environment while moving the parents to the goal of effectively co-parent on their own.