Author: Kylea Asher-Smith, PhD

UpToParents has received countless questions over the past decade concerning how to handle different parenting circumstances—and, yes, conflict—during separation and divorce. Our friend and colleague, Pat Brown, has helped inform the litmus test question we suggest parents use whenever they’re facing a co-parenting dilemma: “What do we want our children to look like when they’re … Continued

A friend who’s been through a divorce recently confided to me his anxieties and guilt about how the divorce could affect his son in the years to come. The list of his worries was long, and I could tell my friend was pained thinking through all of the “what if’s.”   After listening to the growing … Continued