How Toxic Messages to Your Co-Parent Affect Your Child
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Hostile texts and emails to your co-parent reach your child even if they never read them. Child psychologist Malin Bergström explains why — and what helps.
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Small and large conflicts happen. What matters is how we handle them and support the children through the challenges.
Insults Between Parents
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Good communication is the backbone of co-parenting — but sometimes one or both parents cross the line of what's acceptable, occasionally or as a recurring pattern. How do you tell ordinary disagreement from real insults, and when does it become destructive?
More Tips to Minimize Conflict Between Parents
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Practical ways to reduce conflict with your co-parent: keep your agreements, use I statements, stay out of their parenting and help out when you can.
When Your Co-Parent Badmouths You in Front of the Children
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Is your co-parent speaking badly about you in front of the children? Child psychologist Malin Bergström on how to respond and help your child cope.
How Can I Reduce Conflict With My Co-Parent?
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Conflict between separated parents hurts children of every age, and anger and disappointment weigh on the whole parent-child relationship. The good news: you don't have to accept the arguing — there are concrete steps you can take to reduce conflict and keep new fights from starting.
How Do Children Feel When Parents Stop Communicating?
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Silence between parents is a conflict too. How permafrost between co-parents lands on the child, and what you can do to get communication going again.
How to Support Your Child During Parental Conflict
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It's hard for children when their parents argue. Even when conflict can't be avoided, you can help your child feel safe and make sense of what's happening — child psychologist Malin Bergström explains how.
How Does Severe Parental Conflict Affect Children?
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All children are affected when their parents are in conflict, silent moods included. A child psychologist on the signs and how to protect your children.
Are You Being Targeted by Your Co-parent?
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It's hard to be a good parent when your relationship with your co-parent is strained — that's one of the reasons we built the Co-parenting app. Here's how to think about a tough situation, and what you can do to calm things down.
Parallel Parenting: When Conflicts Run Too Deep
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Parallel parenting means each parent runs their own home and contact stays minimal. Learn how to limit communication and shield your child from conflict.
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