The Co-Parenting Communication Toolkit

Co-parenting communication is hard even in the best circumstances, and harder still in the middle of separation or divorce. This guide will not fix your relationship with your co-parent. What it offers is a calmer, more structured way to communicate about the thing you both still share, your child. The Co-Parenting Communication Toolkit is a 10-page guide with simple tools you can use on your own, whatever is happening on the other side.

What's Included:

• Why this communication is different: business partners for your kids, old patterns, and messages that can become a record
• The BIFF method for hard messages: Brief, Informative, Friendly, Firm, with a sample message
• Handling logistics without conflict: a shared calendar, written confirmations, and handoff buffers
• When your co-parent doesn't cooperate: controlling what you can, and documenting without escalating
• Keeping kids out of the middle: habits that protect your child, plus things to try instead
• A printable BIFF message planner and communication log
• Troubleshooting for the moments that come up most often