The holidays can hit everyone hard. Yes it's a happy time; a time for joy and cheer and all that good stuff, but let's be honest, for many people the holidays are a challenge.
One of the factors in making for difficult holidays is divorce and shared child custody. If this is the case for you, I offer you a little gift: CoParenting101.Org, the website devoted to helping people co-parent as smoothly as possible after divorce or separation.
Deesha and Mike, the site's founders, are also exes who share custody of two children. Here's what they say about themselves and their site:
"After our marriage ended, we became the poster-children for divorce amongst our circle of friends and colleagues. We wished we could have been the poster children for successful marriage, but it didn’t work out that way…
In the wake of our divorce and despite the problems that ended our marriage, we have managed to establish a successful, congenial co-parenting relationship which allows our children to thrive and which causes those who know us to ask, “How in the world do you do it?”
The site is their answer to this question. Part advice column, part referral service, part inspirational support, co-parenting 101 offers tips like "the Ten Commandments of Co-parenting," handles tough issues like how to co-parent with an addict or an alcoholic and even offers a little levity via suggestions about how not to co-parent, as illustrated by Madonna.
I wish no one needed Deesha and Mike's wisdom, (and so do they) but I know that many, many folks will benefit from it.
