When you need a Co-Parenting Coach
As a co-parenting coach, the best analogy I use for co-parenting is comparing it to a ball pit that you jump into and no matter which balls you grab or push aside, you just don’t seem to get out of it. Unlike child support, your co-parenting relationship will probably continue for your entire life. Graduations, weddings, baby showers. Adult children are still your children, and you are still a co-parent.
The proverbial ball pit is full of lots of different coloured balls, much like the numerous aspects involved in sharing children with a former partner. You have to worry about managing your emotions, nurturing your child’s emotions, supporting your child’s development (mentally, physically, and emotionally), how the law impacts your role and responsibility, how things should operate logistically, and on the other side of all this is another adult who is scrambling through that very same ball pit as you. And you are trying to meet eye to eye. Which works sometimes, and then one of you falls back into the pit. Darn it.
Unlike counselling or therapy, co-parenting mindset coaching focuses on the interplay between all these things
It’s also about how you can plan, manage, and adopt changes to improve your side of the co-parenting relationship moving forward. It is no substitute for therapy, and I will often recommend doing that in conjunction to work through any mental health-related issues. Instead, we will work with your thoughts, how they might be impacting your actions and behaviours, and what may need to change to make you a better co-parent.
Think of it a bit like upgrading your tool kit, and getting hold of the best tools for the job, rather than just trying to make it work with the ones you have. This is confusing because no amount of tools is going to help you in a ball pit. But you get my point.
At JP Family Law & Mediation, our co-parenting coaches will work with you in a practical sense to help you best navigate the agreement in place between you and the other parent.
This can include things like:
- How to propose a change to the current agreement.
- How to word communications on sensitive issues.
- Whether or not to raise certain issues, including providing a sounding board as to the benefits and risks of this, and how you might be able to work around it from your side alone.
We can consult with you, step you through issues via email, and review or assist in drafting your communications or responses.
We will always refer you to a suitable specialist who can assist you when necessary if it is outside of our skills and knowledge.
If you think that co-parenting mindset coaching could help you move forward in your relationship with your children and the other parent, book an initial consultation with me and we will get started. I can’t wait.
Seriously, though, I can’t. It’s really important for the kids, and I think kids are awesome and deserve the best parents they can get.
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