CoParentSpace: Co-Parenting & Divorce Support

our two-year-old has been showing the signs for weeks. He's telling you when his nappy is wet. He's interested in the toilet. He stays dry for two hours at a stretch. You're ready to start. You bought the potty, you bought the books, you bought the special undies with the dinosaurs.In this episode of CoParentSpace we get practical about the two-house potty training plan, what actually helps for separated and divorced parents, and why, grounded in attachment science and clinical research.What we cover:• Why two-home potty training is structurally harder• Readiness signs, briefly• The conversation with your co-parent• Choosing a method• What each home needs to have• Shared languageMade for parents raising children across two homes. Best for: Ages 0–3.🌱 Explore the Living Library of evidence-based co-parenting articles: coparentspace.comCoParentSpace is the calm space for separated parents and their children — practical co-parenting and parenting-after-divorce support for life across two homes.Support the showCoparentspace.com

The date is coming, the one that used to mean the whole family in one place, and this year it's going to be different. The first big holiday after a separation arrives carrying the full weight of what's changed. Everyone can feel it coming, the children especially, and there's a low dread underneath the planning, because this is the celebration where the new shape of the family becomes impossible to ignore.In this episode of CoParentSpace we get practical about the first big holiday after separation, what actually helps for separated and divorced parents, and why, grounded in attachment science and clinical research.What we cover:• The first one is a grief milestone• New traditions over recreated old ones• Decide the structure in advance• Let it be imperfect• The line you carryMade for parents raising children across two homes. Best for: All ages.🌱 Explore the Living Library of evidence-based co-parenting articles: coparentspace.comCoParentSpace is the calm space for separated parents and their children — practical co-parenting and parenting-after-divorce support for life across two homes.Support the showCoparentspace.com

Wednesday night. New house, three weeks in. Your child has been quiet since the meal. The toothbrush goes in the new cup. The new towel hangs on the new hook. The new bed has the same sheets you brought from before, but the room smells different. You sit on the bed in the same way you've always sat on the bed. You say, want to read? The book is the one you've been reading for two months. The pages know each other.In this episode of CoParentSpace we get practical about the bedtime ritual that travels, what actually helps for separated and divorced parents, and why — grounded in attachment science and clinical research.What we cover:• What a ritual actually is• What's small enough to travel and big enough to matter• Building the ritual with your co-parent• How the ritual changes by age• When the ritual doesn't travel• ClosingMade for parents raising children across two homes. Best for: All ages.🌱 Explore the Living Library of evidence-based co-parenting articles: coparentspace.comCoParentSpace is the calm space for separated parents and their children — practical co-parenting and parenting-after-divorce support for life across two homes.Support the showCoparentspace.com

It's happened again. The Co-Parent was meant to have the children this weekend, or to call, or to collect them, and they didn't. Maybe they cancelled at the last minute, maybe they just didn't appear, maybe the promised contact simply evaporated with no explanation. And you're left holding a disappointed child and your own familiar mix of anger, worry, and weariness, wondering how many times this can happen and what it's doing to your child.In this episode of CoParentSpace we get practical about when your co-parent doesn't show up, what actually helps for separated and divorced parents, and why, grounded in attachment science and clinical research.What we cover:• What the no-show does to a child• What you can't control, and what you can• Buffering the child without lying• Being the reliable one• The line you carryMade for parents raising children across two homes. Best for: All ages.🌱 Explore the Living Library of evidence-based co-parenting articles: coparentspace.comCoParentSpace is the calm space for separated parents and their children — practical co-parenting and parenting-after-divorce support for life across two homes.Support the showCoparentspace.com

The appointment is over, and you're walking out holding a word. Autism. ADHD. A learning difference. An anxiety disorder. Something you may have half-expected or something that blindsided you, but either way it's now attached to your child, and the world looks slightly rearranged. You're carrying questions you don't have answers to yet, and underneath them a tangle of feelings that don't sort into anything tidy.In this episode of CoParentSpace we get practical about when your child has been diagnosed — what actually helps for separated and divorced parents, and why — grounded in attachment science and clinical research.What we cover:• The same child, the day after• A door, not a verdict• Grief and relief, together• What the two homes do now• First steps, gently• The line you carryMade for parents raising children across two homes. Best for: All ages.🌱 Explore the Living Library of evidence-based co-parenting articles: coparentspace.comCoParentSpace is the calm space for separated parents and their children — practical co-parenting and parenting-after-divorce support for life across two homes.Support the showCoparentspace.com

Sunday evening. Your child has just come back from your co-parent's. They're loose-limbed, slightly wired, and they say it before they've even taken their shoes off. Dad lets us watch one more episode after dinner. Or Mum doesn't make us tidy up before bed. Or We had ice cream for breakfast.In this episode of CoParentSpace we get practical about different rules, same values — what actually helps for separated and divorced parents, and why — grounded in attachment science and clinical research.What we cover:• The reaction is real• What children can actually hold• The thing that actually matters• "But Mum lets us"• The minimum that does need to align• When the issue isn't really the rulesMade for parents raising children across two homes. Best for: All ages.🌱 Explore the Living Library of evidence-based co-parenting articles: coparentspace.comCoParentSpace is the calm space for separated parents and their children — practical co-parenting and parenting-after-divorce support for life across two homes.Support the showCoparentspace.com

Tuesday night. Your seven-year-old is in the bath. They've been chatty. About school, about a frog they saw at lunchtime, about a kid who got in trouble for swearing. Then a pause. They're looking at the water. They ask, with no preamble, will Daddy be at my wedding?In this episode of CoParentSpace we get practical about your child is grieving too — what actually helps for separated and divorced parents, and why — grounded in attachment science and clinical research.What we cover:• Your child is grieving• What grief looks like in children• The shape of children's grief at different ages• The shapes that surprise you• Your job is to make space, not to lead• When grief is something moreMade for parents raising children across two homes. Best for: All ages.🌱 Explore the Living Library of evidence-based co-parenting articles: coparentspace.comCoParentSpace is the calm space for separated parents and their children — practical co-parenting and parenting-after-divorce support for life across two homes.Support the showCoparentspace.com

Sunday afternoon. Your six-year-old has melted down at the swing set, in front of the other parents. They've thrown a wooden block at another child. They've called you a name they've never used before. They're now lying on the grass with their face in the crook of their arm, crying in a way that's reached the point where the breath is catching.In this episode of CoParentSpace we get practical about why your child is acting out — what actually helps for separated and divorced parents, and why — grounded in attachment science and clinical research.What we cover:• Behaviour is communication• What's usually underneath• What this means for what you do• When behaviour is more than communication• ClosingMade for parents raising children across two homes. Best for: All ages.🌱 Explore the Living Library of evidence-based co-parenting articles: coparentspace.comCoParentSpace is the calm space for separated parents and their children — practical co-parenting and parenting-after-divorce support for life across two homes.Support the showCoparentspace.com

The whiteboard in the kitchen has two flights, three school holidays, and four weekends marked out across the year. It adds up to about eight weeks. That's what you actually get with your child. The rest of the year, the relationship runs through video calls, voice notes, and the steady work of staying present from a different time zone.In this episode of CoParentSpace we get practical about when the two homes aren't in the same city — what actually helps for separated and divorced parents, and why — grounded in attachment science and clinical research.What we cover:• What changes when distance is the structural fact• By age, what distance asks of the child• The video call done well• The visit done well• What distance asks of you• When the move is still the questionMade for parents raising children across two homes. Best for: All ages.🌱 Explore the Living Library of evidence-based co-parenting articles: coparentspace.comCoParentSpace is the calm space for separated parents and their children — practical co-parenting and parenting-after-divorce support for life across two homes.Support the showCoparentspace.com

You've met someone. It's been a few weeks. You feel something you haven't felt in a long time, possibly years. You're sleeping better. You're laughing at things again. The horizon has light in it for the first time since the separation.In this episode of CoParentSpace we get practical about the 6-month rule: Why timing matters more than feeling ready — what actually helps for separated and divorced parents, and why — grounded in attachment science and clinical research.What we cover:• What's actually at stake• Why 6 months• Why the *I feel ready* test isn't the right test• What the conservative approach looks like in practice• What about when 6 months is up• The hardest versionMade for parents raising children across two homes. Best for: All ages.🌱 Explore the Living Library of evidence-based co-parenting articles: coparentspace.comCoParentSpace is the calm space for separated parents and their children — practical co-parenting and parenting-after-divorce support for life across two homes.Support the showCoparentspace.com

It's Tuesday morning. Your child wakes up with a fever of 38.6. They're listless. They have a sore throat. They're at your home this week; they're due to switch to your Co-Parent's home tomorrow evening.In this episode of CoParentSpace we get practical about who calls the GP — what actually helps for separated and divorced parents, and why — grounded in attachment science and clinical research.What we cover:• The medical-contact-person principle• How to set it up• Who handles what in practice• Records and information• The emergency category• When the structure is testedMade for parents raising children across two homes. Best for: All ages.🌱 Explore the Living Library of evidence-based co-parenting articles: coparentspace.comCoParentSpace is the calm space for separated parents and their children — practical co-parenting and parenting-after-divorce support for life across two homes.Support the showCoparentspace.com

You've been circling the same topic for three months. The school decision. The summer schedule. The way the finances are working. You've talked about it. You've messaged about it. You've sat down once, at the café, and tried to work through it. None of it has produced agreement, and the topic keeps coming back, slightly heavier each time.In this episode of CoParentSpace we get practical about when to bring a mediator in — what actually helps for separated and divorced parents, and why — grounded in attachment science and clinical research.What we cover:• The five signals• What a mediator actually does• The fears that delay the decision• How to propose it• When mediation is the wrong answerMade for parents raising children across two homes. Best for: All ages.🌱 Explore the Living Library of evidence-based co-parenting articles: coparentspace.comCoParentSpace is the calm space for separated parents and their children — practical co-parenting and parenting-after-divorce support for life across two homes.Support the showCoparentspace.com

Tuesday morning. Your phone is on the kitchen counter. The screen lights up with a message from your Co-Parent.This episode gives you a clear, practical framework based on attachment science and clinical research.CoParentSpace - the calm space for separated parents and their children.Support the showCoparentspace.com

Wednesday night. Eleven seventeen. You're on the sofa with your laptop open to a spreadsheet you started three months ago. Two columns, your name and your Co-Parent's name, with a running tally underneath each.This episode gives you a clear, practical framework based on attachment science and clinical research.CoParentSpace - the calm space for separated parents and their children.Support the showCoparentspace.com

Wednesday night. The kids are asleep. You've been on Google for forty minutes. Three browser tabs open with different schedule templates, each one called something like most popular or best for kids. Your co-parent sent a different option last week. Your lawyer mentioned a fourth one.This episode gives you a clear, practical framework based on attachment science and clinical research.CoParentSpace - the calm space for separated parents and their children.Support the showCoparentspace.com

Saturday morning. The kitchen is quiet. The children are still asleep upstairs. You and your co-parent are sitting at the table. There's coffee. Neither of you is drinking it. You've been awake since 4:30. You've rehearsed sentences in your head all week. You don't know how to start.This episode gives you a clear, practical framework based on attachment science and clinical research.Read the full piece: https://coparentspace.com/en-my/living/talking-to-children/telling-your-child-youre-separatingCoParentSpace - the calm space for separated parents and their children.Support the showCoparentspace.com

Your daughter is fourteen. The schedule has held for years. But now she wants to stay at the other house on Thursdays because her best friend lives nearby. Or she doesn't want to come to yours on weekends anymore because her social life has moved.This episode gives you a clear, practical framework based on attachment science and clinical research.CoParentSpace - the calm space for separated parents and their children.Support the showCoparentspace.com

If school mornings are chaos - the PE kit is at the other house, the reading book is missing, your child arrived last night tired and hasn't landed yet - this episode explains why two-home mornings are harder than single-home mornings, and gives you a system that works.What you'll learn:- The 5 reasons school mornings are harder in separated families- Why "compatible, not identical" works better than matching routines- The night-before system that eliminates most morning problems- How to build a travelling kit so nothing goes missing- What to do when mornings keep breaking down- How to have the "PE kit is missing again" conversation without blameThis is the cornerstone episode for school-age co-parenting routines (ages 4-12).Based on attachment science and practical systems from families who've solved this.Read the full piece: www.coparentspace.comCoParentSpace - the calm space for separated parents and their children.Support the showCoparentspace.com

Tuesday afternoon. Your eighteen-month-old has just woken from her nap. She walks into the kitchen with one sock on, holding the soft toy that has been with her for fourteen months. She looks at you. She looks at the door. She says, Daddy?CoParentSpace  - the calm space for parents and children living between two homes.co-parenting, parenting, separated parents, two homes, toddler parenting, parenting teenagersSupport the showCoparentspace.com

Your child's bedtime isn't just another routine, it's the most important fifteen minutes of your day. In this episode, Remy explores why bedtime is the moment where co-parenting matters most, and what you can do to make it work across two homes.You'll learn:• Why bedtime is a co-regulation moment, not just a routine• The 90-minute window that determines how your child sleeps• What your child is really asking when they resist bedtime• How to be the calm your child borrows to fall asleep• Why the bedtime ritual that travels is more important than the roomBased on attachment science and clinical research. Not therapy, just a calm place to think.CoParentSpace, the calm space for parents and children living between two homes.Support the showCoparentspace.com