Who This Is For
We welcome parents who have recently separated and are working out how shared parenting will run, parents who separated years ago and are still having the same disagreements, and new partners who are unsure what their role is. We also welcome blended families, where two sets of rules and two sets of loyalties arrive in one house at once.
What It Covers
We work through which decisions the two of you genuinely need to make jointly, and the much longer list you do not. We cover how to hand a child over without an argument attached, what to do when the other household has different rules, which it usually will, and how to speak about the other parent in front of a child who is listening closely. We also talk about what a stepparent's role is in the first year, which is often smaller than people expect and more useful than it looks.
We keep the training practical: we work on agreements and wording you can use at the next handover.
What Helps Most
Children do not need their parents to be friends. They need to stop being the channel the two households talk through. We spend most of this training on taking them out of the middle.
Practical
We hold the training in our conference room at the office in Hale. Both parents are welcome to attend together where that is workable and safe, and we arrange it separately where it is not. Call (989) 728-2364 and ask us when the next one runs and what it costs. We set those for each training, and we are happy to go through them with you.
Where there has been violence or there is fear between the parents, joint sessions are not appropriate, and we will arrange this differently or say it is not the right service. The National Domestic Violence Hotline is 1-800-799-7233.