Trick-or-Treating with Your Ex: Co-Parenting on Halloween

Holidays, especially those that are particularly important to their children, can be fraught with emotion and stress for divorced co-parents. Both parents want to share in their child’s activities and enjoyment of the holiday, but it is often difficult for them to put aside their differences long enough to celebrate together, particularly if the divorce is recent. Meanwhile, children don’t want their vision of Halloween – what their costume will be, where they will go, which friends they’ll celebrate with, and how much candy they’ll eat – to fall by the wayside because their parents can’t co-parent effectively. Savvy kids may even manipulate the situation to their advantage, and who could blame them – what could be better than one Halloween but two?

via Trick-or-Treating with Your Ex: Co-Parenting on Halloween « Dr. Deborah Hecker.