CoParentSpace: Co-Parenting & Divorce Support

uesday, 7pm. You're loading the dishwasher when your eight-year-old says, almost casually, "I think there's maths homework due tomorrow. I left it at Mummy's."

In this episode of CoParentSpace we get practical about homework: Who does what, where — what actually helps for separated and divorced parents, and why — grounded in attachment science and clinical research.

What we cover:
• The bag is the system
• Who does what when
• The information note
• When homework is the thing that breaks

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

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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 language

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

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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 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 carry

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

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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
• Closing

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 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 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 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 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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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 rules

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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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 more

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 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
• Closing

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 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 question

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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