Amy & Aron's

If you’ve separated with your partner who’s also the other parent of your children, it’s important to find a new parenting arrangement that works for you both and, most importantly, achieves the most for your children. We’ve got some tips to talk about today that will help you two to successfully co-parent today and in the years ahead of you. Read on to learn about them.

Leave Your Previous Relationship as Completed and Start Afresh

First of all, you need to make a distinction between your relationship right now and what it was before. You need to leave your previous relationship behind you and start afresh. The dynamic and relationship between you need a new beginning so you can leave the past behind you and establish a positive relationship based on the shared desire to raise your children in the most positive and healthy way.

Communicate as a Team

Communication is one of the important things to get right when you’re trying to co-parent with an ex-partner. Try to adopt a team approach and communicate as effectively as you can. If you allow the lines of communication between the two of you to break down, you’ll only cause more problems and more confusion between you in the long-term. Communication is something you can both work on and do better as you get used to co-parenting.

Ensure the Separation and What Follows Doesn’t Create Unnecessary Animosity

When your separation happens, you need to create a situation that doesn’t allow the animosity and resentment to carry forward. The right family lawyers and the correct approach to the divorce should ensure you don’t end up carrying too much animosity forward with you. Both of you need to leave those feelings behind you if you’re going to parent your children well.

Be as Flexible as You Can Be and Expect the Same in Return

Being flexible is something you should both try to do if you want to make a success of this. Expecting the same from them when you’re trying to be flexible is perfectly reasonable. When you both adopt that mentality and try to be flexible with your schedules, it’ll end up working ut best for everyone in the end.

Keep Disagreements Away From the Kids

When disagreements between the two of you do arise, it’s important to ensure they don’t get in the way of your parenting duties. Make a point of keeping things like that away from the children because you don’t want the problems between the two of you to start impacting the relationship either of you has with your children. Once you establish this as a rule between you, it should form the basis of your parenting dynamic going forwards.



Co-parenting can be tough and there’s no one way of getting it right and avoiding failure. There are going to be problems and failings along the way, but it’s about learning from those situations and improving together, even though you’re now separated. And it’s all for the good of your children.