We Agree: Creating a Parenting Plan
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Contents
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Chapter 1: Before You Meet
- What is a parenting plan?
- How to use this booklet
- Why is it important to make a parenting plan together?
- How courts are involved
- "Best interests of the child"
- How to share parenting time
- How children grow
- Infants and toddlers
- Preschoolers
- Elementary-middle schoolers
- Adolescents
- What we do well
- What are our areas of agreement and disagreement?
- Nobody knows your children as well as you do
- Parenting well
- What your children need from you
- Parenting styles
- Am I using a Positive Parenting style?
- What is a parenting plan?
Chapter 2: Making Your Parenting Plan Together
- Elements of a successful meeting
- Tips for reducing conflict
Chapter 3: Maintaining Your Parenting Plan
- When your children are moving between two households...
- How to exchange information with the other parent
- Tips on supporting your children's relationship with both of you
- How to make ongoing decisions together
- Changing your parenting plan
Parenting Agreement Worksheet (268 K PDF)
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