Words Matter: Some Helpful Words between Co-Parents
1. “I'm interested in your ideas on this. Could we talk sometime soon?”
How much difference it might make if we all felt we were being heard!
Zig Ziglar is famous for saying (and teaching), “You can get anything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” And communication has to be the beginning of this process of cooperation.
Let your co-parent know that you’re genuinely open to his/her ideas.
Show Extra Tip- “You're good with things like this—what do you think?”
- “I bet if we sat down and put our ideas together, we could come up with a great solution.”
- “You really saved the day.”
