Co-parenting 101: Helping Your Children Thrive after Divorce

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Offers a comprehensive, personal, and upfront look at how to effectively raise kids with an ex-spouse.

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"An extraordinary book and required reading for separated and divorced parents, as well as mental health practitioners. [Co-parenting 101] outlines some of the possible pitfalls of the co-parenting process with which clinicians like myself are all too familiar and regularly deal with therapeutically. But now we can refer parents to Co-parenting 101 to help them mindfully approach the co-parenting process and examine the array of options they have in their parenting toolbox."
--Robert F. Fierstein, PhD, licensed psychologist
"Co-parenting 101 offers practical advice, information, and tools for parents that can be easily implemented, as well as a tremendous amount of hope. I recommend that parents read this book not only to avoid problems but also as a manual to consult when difficult situations arise."
--Susan Pease Gadoua, author of Contemplating Divorce and Stronger Day by Day
"As a family physician, I care for hundreds of families with parents living separately. The mental and physical health of children is directly impacted by the relationship between their co-parents. I'm recommending this book to every separated family I see. If parents were willing to step up and consider the suggestions made in Co-parenting 101, their kids would be healthier and far more resilient!"
--Deborah Gilboa, MD, of askdoctorg.com
"As a marital and couples therapist, I have witnessed how contentious divorces affect both the parents and their children. It can be agonizing. I would highly recommend and encourage those folks contemplating divorce to read this book first. It is extremely practical with many vignettes of actual parent struggles, including the authors' own co-parenting journey. The interview with the authors' daughter is particularly touching and poignant, a powerful message for all divorced parents."
--Bari Benjamin, LCSW, BCD, licensed, clinical social worker
"Deesha Philyaw and Michael D. Thomas have done the impossible. This formerly married couple not only co-parent their children without rancor, but in Co-parenting 101, they teach us how to do it, too. What a helpful, detailed, and realistic guide to a widespread but much ignored situation! This book will help readers navigate the tricky and often treacherous waters of co-parenting with a former partner."
--Ericka Lutz, author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Stepparenting

Author Bio

Deesha Philyaw is a freelance writer whose work has been published in Essence, the Washington Post, Wondertime, and Bitch. Her work has been anthologized in Literary Mama: Reading for the Maternally Inclined, A Cup of Comfort for Adoptive Families, Just Like a Girl: Manifesta!, and Women's Work. She has been featured on CBS' Early Show for her experiences as a co-parent.Michael D. Thomas is a managing director and head of real estate loan syndications for PNC Capital Markets (PNCCM) LLC, and a member of the PNC Financial Services Group. He is co-founder of CoParenting101.org.