Smart Divorce Resources and Fall School Activities

Last week we talked about the new challenges that the new school year offers divorced parents. This week I’d like to continue that discussion. In addition to finding children of divorce rides to and from their after school activities, another issue that parents have to deal with is determining who will attend what school activities. This issue can be particularly sticky if the two divorced parents don’t get along.

The first thing you need to think about is that your personal feelings towards each other need to be put aside for the well being of your kids. Your kids want, and need, both of their parents to be involved in their lives. This means spending time together at school events and activities. However, if you find that it is best not to attend the same events, then divide the activities between you. Make sure that the distribution of the activities are equal and that each parent attends a balance of fun and business meetings for each of their kids.

If you do get along then things are going to be a lot easier to handle. To ensure that you both have equal chances of supporting your kids in school you will want to make sure that both of you have a copy of your kids’ fall activity schedule. Also, you will want to make sure that if you know about a special event in your child’s life that you tell your parenting partner, and that if your parenting partner knows about a special event in your child’s event that they tell you. Smart divorce resources for planning fall activity participation can be obtained from your kids’ schools or they can be obtained from the special programs that your kids participate in.

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