CoParentSpace: Co-Parenting & Divorce Support

Your child comes home and tells you they watched four hours of YouTube at the second home over the weekend. Or that they got a new game on the tablet your co-parent gave them. Or that they were allowed to play Roblox until eleven on a Saturday night. Or that the family has a rule of one episode after dinner, except the family is just one of your child's families, and at yours the rule is no episodes at all.

In this episode of CoParentSpace we get practical about when you disagree on screen time — 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
• What's a rule difference and what's a floor
• What you can shift in your own home
• When to actually talk to your co-parent about screens
• The hardest version

Made for parents raising children across two homes. Best for: Ages 4–17.

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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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Saturday morning. The kitchen. Your eight-year-old is at the counter helping you make pancakes. They've been chatty for the last few minutes. Then, mid-stir, in a voice that's bright in a way that doesn't quite match the conversation: do you remember when we used to all have pancakes together on Saturday mornings, when we lived in the old house? That was the best.

In this episode of CoParentSpace we get practical about when your child idealises how things used to be — what actually helps for separated and divorced parents, and why — grounded in attachment science and clinical research.

What we cover:
• What's happening
• What the instinct says, and why it's wrong
• What you do
• When the idealisation gets sharper
• When the idealisation is also a critique
• The parent's parallel grief

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

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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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Your child used to be even-tempered, and now there's a short fuse where the easy kid used to be. Snapping over small things. Slamming doors. Furious at a sibling, at you, at a sock that won't go on right. The anger seems to come from nowhere and lands on everything, and you're left wondering where your child went and who this stormy version is.

In this episode of CoParentSpace we get practical about when your child is suddenly angry all the time — what actually helps for separated and divorced parents, and why — grounded in attachment science and clinical research.

What we cover:
• Anger is usually the surface, not the source
• The safe-target paradox
• Co-regulate before you correct
• Name the feeling under the anger
• When the anger needs more
• The line you carry

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

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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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The school calendar is stuck to the fridge with a magnet, and on it, circled in marker, are the dates that actually matter. The two weeks in the December break. The month in summer. The week in the spring term. For a long-distance family, these aren't just holidays. They're the spine of the year, the blocks of real, physical, unhurried time that the rest of the year is built around.

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

What we cover:
• The shape of a holiday block
• Protect the ordinary inside the holiday
• The Co-Parent's side of the holiday
• By age, what the holiday asks
• When the holiday is the whole relationship
• The line you carry

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

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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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Monday evening. Six forty-eight. Your nine-year-old is at the kitchen table, dragging penne through a small puddle of olive oil and parmesan. They've been chatty since they got back from their mama's an hour ago. School. The new book they're reading. The kid in their class who's apparently a complete legend now for reasons you don't fully understand.

In this episode of CoParentSpace we get practical about your child meets your Co-Parent's new partner — what actually helps for separated and divorced parents, and why — grounded in attachment science and clinical research.

What we cover:
• You're the receiver, not the introducer
• What's actually at stake
• The ninety seconds at the kitchen table
• What to do over the next week
• What to do if your child asks you something hard
• When the new partner doesn't seem okay

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

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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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The message arrives at 6.40 in the morning. You haven't had coffee yet. You're sitting on the edge of your bed, phone in hand, reading what your Co-Parent has just sent.

In this episode of CoParentSpace we get practical about when your child gets sick at your Co-Parent's — what actually helps for separated and divorced parents, and why — grounded in attachment science and clinical research.

What we cover:
• The default: the parent who has the child handles it
• What the non-resident parent does (and doesn't do)
• When to flex the schedule
• Specific harder cases

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

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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 Wednesday, 6.18pm. You're in the car park outside the mediator's office. You've been here for twelve minutes. You came early because you didn't know what the traffic would be, and now you have time you didn't know what to do with.

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

What we cover:
• The room itself
• The session structure
• What you actually do
• What the right outcome looks like
• The walk back

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

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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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Wednesday, 6.15pm. You've just got home from work. Your child mentioned, in passing, that they didn't have the right kit for tomorrow's school activity. The kit is at your Co-Parent's house. The activity is at 9am. The kit needs to be at school by 8.30. Your Co-Parent does the morning handover. You're not seeing your child until Friday.

In this episode of CoParentSpace we get practical about the message you send vs the message you wanted to send — what actually helps for separated and divorced parents, and why — grounded in attachment science and clinical research.

What we cover:
• The everything-else layer
• Separating the layers in real time
• What the message should be
• What to do with what's left over
• When you need to address the pattern

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

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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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Saturday morning. The supermarket. Your child puts a packet of biscuits in the trolley. You don't think about it. At the checkout, the bill comes to slightly more than usual. You pay. You walk to the car.

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

What we cover:
• What makes an expense big
• What makes an expense small
• Why the line matters
• The grey zone
• How the small expenses actually work
• A test for any specific expense

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

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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. Your eleven-year-old is packing his school bag. The PE kit, the reading book, the maths workbook. The two-week-old habit of double-checking everything because some weeks he hasn't seen the contents of his backpack since Tuesday. This is the third week of the new schedule. Week on, week off. He goes to his Co-Parent's tomorrow morning. He won't be back until next Sunday evening. It feels long. It also feels, oddly, less exhausting than what they had before.

In this episode of CoParentSpace we get practical about the week-on, week-off 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 works at this age
• The hardest part of week-on, week-off
• Friday vs Sunday transition
• What this asks of the parents
• When week-on/week-off ages out

Made for parents raising children across two homes. Best for: Ages 8–12.

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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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