CoParentSpace: Co-Parenting & Divorce Support

You've been drafting a message in your head for two days. It's about something specific that's been bothering you. A pattern you've noticed. The thing you want to say has now formed into a coherent paragraph.

In this episode of CoParentSpace we get practical about whatsApp, email, app: Choosing the channel — what actually helps for separated and divorced parents, and why — grounded in attachment science and clinical research.

What we cover:
• What each channel signals
• Matching content to channel
• Escalating the channel
• De-escalating the channel
• When you can't agree on the channel

Made for parents raising children across two homes. Best for: All ages.

📖 Read the full written version: https://coparentspace.com/en-my/living/05-whatsapp-email-app-choosing-the-channel?utm_source=buzzsprout&utm_medium=podcast
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CoParentSpace is the calm space for separated parents and their children — practical co-parenting and parenting-after-divorce support for life across two homes.

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Thursday morning. You're scrolling back through three weeks of messages between you and your Co-Parent, looking for whether you ever told them about the parent-teacher meeting that's scheduled for next Wednesday.

In this episode of CoParentSpace we get practical about the information-sharing minimum — what actually helps for separated and divorced parents, and why — grounded in attachment science and clinical research.

What we cover:
• The minimum
• The maximum
• Where the boundary lives
• When silence is information
• The structural tools that do most of the work

Made for parents raising children across two homes. Best for: All ages.

📖 Read the full written version: https://coparentspace.com/en-my/living/04-the-information-sharing-minimum?utm_source=buzzsprout&utm_medium=podcast
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CoParentSpace is the calm space for separated parents and their children — practical co-parenting and parenting-after-divorce support for life across two homes.

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It's 10.43pm on a Sunday. The child has been back at your Co-Parent's for six hours. You're sitting at the kitchen table with the school folder you didn't have time to look at this morning. There's a form due Friday that someone should have flagged a week ago. The form needs a signature from both of you and information you don't have. The note attached says please ensure both parents have reviewed.

In this episode of CoParentSpace we get practical about the 24-hour rule — what actually helps for separated and divorced parents, and why — grounded in attachment science and clinical research.

What we cover:
• Recognising activation in your body
• The parking lot
• The morning reread
• When 24 hours isn't right
• When you've broken the rule

Made for parents raising children across two homes. Best for: All ages.

📖 Read the full written version: https://coparentspace.com/en-my/living/02-the-24-hour-rule?utm_source=buzzsprout&utm_medium=podcast
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CoParentSpace is the calm space for separated parents and their children — practical co-parenting and parenting-after-divorce support for life across two homes.

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Sunday evening. The laundry basket. You're folding school trousers that came back from your Co-Parent's house this morning. You hold the first pair up. The hem is two inches above your child's ankle. You hold up the next pair. Same.

In this episode of CoParentSpace we get practical about the clothing budget — what actually helps for separated and divorced parents, and why — grounded in attachment science and clinical research.

What we cover:
• What's Pool and what's not
• The growth spurt
• The dual-wardrobe question
• When taste becomes the issue
• The seasonal restock

Made for parents raising children across two homes. Best for: All ages.

📖 Read the full written version: https://coparentspace.com/en-my/living/05-the-clothing-budget?utm_source=buzzsprout&utm_medium=podcast
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CoParentSpace is the calm space for separated parents and their children — practical co-parenting and parenting-after-divorce support for life across two homes.

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Thursday evening. Your eight-year-old is doing homework at the kitchen table. She asks what day she goes to Daddy's. You say Saturday. She nods, makes a note in her planner, goes back to her maths. She knew. She's confirming. Three months in, the rhythm is starting to feel familiar. Five nights with Mama, two with Daddy, two with Mama, five with Daddy. Every fortnight, the same shape.

In this episode of CoParentSpace we get practical about the 5-2-2-5 schedule — what actually helps for separated and divorced parents, and why — grounded in attachment science and clinical research.

What we cover:
• What the pattern is
• Why it sits between 2-2-3 and week-on
• When it works well
• What the days actually feel like
• What this asks of the parents
• When the 5-2-2-5 doesn't work

Made for parents raising children across two homes. Best for: Ages 4–7.

📖 Read the full written version: https://coparentspace.com/en-my/living/05-the-5-2-2-5-schedule?utm_source=buzzsprout&utm_medium=podcast
🌱 Explore the Living Library of evidence-based co-parenting articles: coparentspace.com

CoParentSpace is the calm space for separated parents and their children — practical co-parenting and parenting-after-divorce support for life across two homes.

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Tuesday evening. Your four-year-old has eaten about half her dinner. The plate is still on the table. She's holding her stuffed rabbit, the one with the missing ear. You've been thinking all afternoon about how to bring up the conversation about Daddy's new flat. Now you sit down next to her. She looks up, the rabbit in her lap. You say I want to tell you something about Daddy's new house. She says can I have ice cream.

In this episode of CoParentSpace we get practical about how to talk to a 4-year-old about separation — what actually helps for separated and divorced parents, and why — grounded in attachment science and clinical research.

What we cover:
• What a 4-year-old can hold
• How to talk to them, in shape
• What to say, by topic
• What to read together
• What to watch for
• The window before sleep

Made for parents raising children across two homes. Best for: Ages 4–7.

📖 Read the full written version: https://coparentspace.com/en-my/living/05-how-to-talk-to-a-4-year-old?utm_source=buzzsprout&utm_medium=podcast
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CoParentSpace is the calm space for separated parents and their children — practical co-parenting and parenting-after-divorce support for life across two homes.

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She got her first phone at 11. By 13 it was always in her hand. By 15 she'd stopped letting you see the screen.

In this episode of CoParentSpace we get practical about the phone, the privacy, the silence — what actually helps for separated and divorced parents, and why — grounded in attachment science and clinical research.

What we cover:
• What the phone actually is
• The realistic frame
• What you have a reasonable claim to see
• The two-home complication
• The silence
• When to look

Made for parents raising children across two homes. Best for: Teens 13+.

📖 Read the full written version: https://coparentspace.com/en-my/living/05-the-phone-the-privacy-the-silence?utm_source=buzzsprout&utm_medium=podcast
🌱 Explore the Living Library of evidence-based co-parenting articles: coparentspace.com

CoParentSpace is the calm space for separated parents and their children — practical co-parenting and parenting-after-divorce support for life across two homes.

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Wednesday, 4:15pm. School pickup. Your child climbs into the car, hands you the lunchbox, and announces that lunch was boring.

In this episode of CoParentSpace we get practical about the lunchbox question — what actually helps for separated and divorced parents, and why — grounded in attachment science and clinical research.

What we cover:
• Whose lunchbox is it
• The forgotten lunchbox
• What the half-eaten lunchbox is telling you
• The note in the lunchbox
• Allergies and the things that aren't optional

Made for parents raising children across two homes. Best for: Ages 4–12.

📖 Read the full written version: https://coparentspace.com/en-my/living/05-the-lunchbox-question?utm_source=buzzsprout&utm_medium=podcast
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CoParentSpace is the calm space for separated parents and their children — practical co-parenting and parenting-after-divorce support for life across two homes.

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She was reliably using the potty by April. Six weeks of clean undies, the dinosaur ones, the proud announcements at the table. By June, six months after the separation, she's having two accidents a day. Sometimes in undies, sometimes on the rug, sometimes in the bath. She also asks to be carried up the stairs she used to climb. She's started asking for the bottle she gave up at fifteen months.

In this episode of CoParentSpace we get practical about toddler regression after separation — what actually helps for separated and divorced parents, and why — grounded in attachment science and clinical research.

What we cover:
• What regression actually is
• The forms regression takes
• What it isn't
• What helps
• What hurts
• The conversation with your co-parent

Made for parents raising children across two homes. Best for: Ages 0–3.

📖 Read the full written version: https://coparentspace.com/en-my/living/05-toddler-regression-after-separation?utm_source=buzzsprout&utm_medium=podcast
🌱 Explore the Living Library of evidence-based co-parenting articles: coparentspace.com

CoParentSpace is the calm space for separated parents and their children — practical co-parenting and parenting-after-divorce support for life across two homes.

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Friday evening. Your four-year-old is at the door of your home, just back from her week with her co-parent. She has the bag. She has the snacks. She has her shoes on. She doesn't have Bun-Bun.

In this episode of CoParentSpace we get practical about the comfort object that travels (and what to do when it doesn't) — what actually helps for separated and divorced parents, and why — grounded in attachment science and clinical research.

What we cover:
• What a comfort object is, and why it matters this much
• Why it matters more in two-home life
• Making it travel
• The disagreement: which home does the comfort object belong to?
• When it goes missing or gets left behind
• The backup question

Made for parents raising children across two homes. Best for: Ages 0–3.

📖 Read the full written version: https://coparentspace.com/en-my/living/05-the-comfort-object-that-travels?utm_source=buzzsprout&utm_medium=podcast
🌱 Explore the Living Library of evidence-based co-parenting articles: coparentspace.com

CoParentSpace is the calm space for separated parents and their children — practical co-parenting and parenting-after-divorce support for life across two homes.

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