Parents! What does your parenting plan look like?

Phoenix AZ

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A public service posting: WHY PARENTING PLANS ARE NEEDED Having a written plan brings parents and children a more solid understanding, providing a measure of confidence that continued contact and family interactions are agreed upon, possibly preventing costly hearings and protracted future conflict. Having at least a template is a framework for flexibility. Open dialog and cooperation between civil parents raises your chances of success. The Courts prefer that parents voluntarily reach agreements. Absent those, the decisions arrived at by the court are seldom, if ever, what we parents would have chosen. When parents reach agreements about everything from schedules to schooling on their own, they are far more likely to remain cooperative as their children grow up. Children cherish an environment with cooperating parents. Children growing up in an environment with continuing conflict or domestic violence are at high risk for suffering serious long-term mental health problems. If parents need assistance in working out the schedules, private and court-sponsored mediation services are available in most counties. If parents need help creating, revising or negotiating your plan, call or write to me. We can get right on it, working with you to craft a plan for peace. Considering what is at stake- who will raise the children, how they'll be raised, in whose home, under what religion, the nature, and extent of co-parenting communications, a life of joy or misery, parents should make such plans a very high priority. For the kids, James, CBPI, Founder, Mediator Certified Breakthrough Parenting® Instructor Breakthrough Parents® Classes, Coaching, Consulting For the Modern Parent™ "Crops watered with loving water yield the richest harvest." -James