Tag: coparenting
Forgive the Past And Make Room for the Future: An Invitation for Co-Parents
When a relationship ends, there are usually real reasons. Pain. Disappointment. Betrayal. Injury. Forgiving does not mean ignoring those things. It doesn’t even mean friendship is required.
But when children are involved, some level of forgiveness is often necessary for the family to heal. Why? Because the lack of forgiveness between parents never stays neatly between parents. Children feel it. They hear it in the tone, and they see it in body language. They pick up on tension, delayed responses, and sharp comments, and understand that their peace is always fragile.
Your Child Sees Everything: The Co-Parenting Truth Most Parents Avoid
We’ve been in the living rooms, courtrooms, classrooms, and parking lots, and on the late-night phone calls where parents are attempting something that seems straightforward but feels impossible. We’ve watched smart, hardworking people lose their footing because the topic is their child. And when the topic is the child, the stakes don’t feel theoretical. They feel like survival.
This is why the “co” in co-parenting matters more than most people realize.
Co-Parenting Maturity: The Skill Set That Keeps Parents Strong When Romance Can’t
We want to move co-parenting out of the category of “something you hope works out” and into the category of “a set of learnable skills.” We also want to be honest about what usually goes wrong. It’s not always that people are cruel. Often, they are underdeveloped for the complexity they’ve been handed.
The Truth About Marriage, Responsible Fatherhood and Child Well-being
Marriage produces some of the best outcomes for children when it is healthy, stable, and cooperative. This is not a controversial statement. What we must stop doing, though, is turning marriage into a simplistic solution, as if the presence of a ring automatically creates safety, trust, emotional maturity, patience, shared responsibility, and the ability to repair conflict.
The Top Five Traits of Successful Co-Parenting Relationships
Co-parenting is one of the most significant tests of maturity, love, and patience that two adults can undertake. It requires shifting the focus from what ended between the parents to what must continue for the child.
Over time, through thousands of conversations with fathers and families, we’ve seen what works and what doesn’t. The five elements detailed here consistently stand out as markers of successful co-parenting relationships.
Gentle Warriors Academy Receives $6.5M Grant to Strengthen Fathers, Families, and Communities in Georgia
The grant award expands GWA’s ability to equip fathers, couples, and co-parents with the skills, coaching, and support that build resilient families — improving child well-being, enhancing relationship health, and advancing long-term household stability.
7 Critical Co-Parenting Tips: Essential Strategies for Fathers
Every father has the potential to be a positive and impactful presence in their child’s life, regardless of the family structure. These seven tips can help you navigate your co-parenting journey with confidence and compassion.
Celebrating the Month of the Father: The Noble Journey of Gentle Warriors
Gentle Warriors Academy, under the stewardship of Fathers Incorporated, is inspired by these remarkable men who are shaping the next generation of leaders, inventors, thinkers, and dreamers.
5 Tips to Forming a Workable Co-Parenting Relationship
When it comes to co-parenting, it’s important to establish a workable relationship for the benefit of your children.
Fathers Incorporated Receives $5M Grant to Provide Direct Responsible Fatherhood Services in Metro Atlanta
Fathers Incorporated has received a $5M grant to provide Responsible Fatherhood Services in Metro Atlanta from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Office of Family Assistance).
TIP SHEET: CO-PARENTING DURING COVID19
COVID-19 has impacted the lives of everyone, especially parents. These tips and strategies can help ease the tension and anxiety parents often experience with social distancing.
How to Parent with Certainty in Uncertain Times
Fathers often feel the responsibility to protect their children no matter what, and during times such as these, that responsibility can feel particularly overwhelming.
Tips To Curb Your Overprotective Parental Tendencies
Do you pride yourself on swooping in and saving your child whenever he gets in a sticky situation that you see is about to go south? […]
Fathers Incorporated Launches Drive To Five Campaign
The Drive to Five messaging campaign will equip and empower fathers with the necessary tools to understand the importance of and fully develop their role as fathers, encouraging them to engage positively with their children during the most formative years of life–up to age 5.
Co-Parenting Tips for the Holidays: Working as a Team
This is the second in a two-part series sharing co-parenting tips on ways to reduce stress—particularly for children—during the holidays.