Posts Tagged ‘Holidays’
How to Manage the Holidays During a Divorce
The holiday season can feel particularly tough when you’re going through a divorce. The stress of maintaining family traditions, managing emotions, and keeping things as normal as possible for your children can feel overwhelming. But with thoughtful planning, you can work through this period and have a holiday season that is joyful for both you…
Read MoreStarting Your Divorce Before or After the Holidays – What is the Best Choice for You?
A Better Divorce Podcast with Andrea Vacca, Episode 53 In this episode of A Better Divorce Podcast, Andrea Vacca discusses the question many people in unhappy marriages are facing: Should you wait until after the holidays to start your divorce? Tune in to the episode to hear about: How the typical “Divorce Month” has shifted…
Read More5 Tips for the Holidays After Divorce or Separation
Deciding how to share parenting time around Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Year’s often involve many conversations and could be challenging to a couple that is divorcing. What you may not have considered during the divorce is how you will feel afterwards, when the schedule is in place, your children are with the other parent,…
Read MoreHoliday Planning for Divorcing Parents – Part 3: Celebrating the Holidays After the Divorce Is Final
As difficult as it may have been to reach an agreement with your ex regarding how to spend the holidays with your children after your divorce, your work as a parent to make sure your child’s holidays are happy is not finished. In Part 1 of our 3-part series on holiday planning in divorce, we…
Read MoreHoliday Planning for Divorcing Parents – Part 2: How Collaborative Divorce Supports Creative Solutions for Spending the Holidays Together
Divorcing during the holidays is not easy for you or your children, but it may be unavoidable. So what is the best way to divorce if you want to maintain holiday traditions while minimizing the impact your divorce will have on your children’s lives? In most cases, the answer is collaborative divorce. In Part 1…
Read MoreHoliday Planning for Divorcing Parents – Part 1: Putting the Children First
For most people, the holiday season is the happiest of times, but for families in the middle of a divorce or after the conclusion of a divorce, this season can be the toughest. Parents often say their top goal in the divorce is that the children’s lives don’t change. But realistically, whether because of divorce…
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