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Did You Know: 

Growth spurts can start as early as 10 days after your baby’s birth.  Growth spurts usually are preceded by a sleepy, lethargic day and a big jump in appetite.  Growth spurts may happen again at 3, 6, and 12 weeks and again at 4 and 6 months.  If you begin to notice that your child is not as satisfied with the amount that you have been feeding her previously, then she may be beginning a growth spurt period.  If you are breastfeeding, you may want to add a feeding or two to satiate your baby’s appetite and to help increase milk production.

Articles on Separation/ Divorce/ Custody Issues:

 

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1

Separated parents in dispute:

Don’t drag in your service providers!

That letter of support you asked for... could cause you trouble. Here's why...
2 What is Custody? Custody refers to the legal right to make decisions...
3 Imagine… A Collaborative Approach To Divorce Looking for an alternative way to resolve disputes without the threat of Court? Check this out...
4 Custody/Access Dispute and Choice of Lawyer The lawyer you choose and and their approach to settlement can affect your kids...
5 Kids of Separated Parents: The Annual Holiday Access Dispute Have you settled your holiday plans yet? Consider this advice...
6 A funny thing happened on the way to trial… There is more to choosing an assessor than their professional credentials...
7 Children and Parents Adjust to Separation With all the attention on the kids, what about the adjustment parents make to their separation...
8 Parenting Plans From a Kid’s Eye View Kids often know how close their parents can be to each other. The level of conflict is the key...
9 Absent Parent Returns, Active Parent in Turmoil This article discusses issues and strategies to manage the return of an absent parent who demands access.
10 High Heat, the Assessment and then Court… Some disputes go all the way. If this sounds like your situation, you are now at the will of the Court.
11 A Foot in Two Families Your eldest is from a prior relationship and now s/he wants more time with the other parent... What do you do?
12 Who Started It Doesn’t Necessarily Matter! Who started the conflict matters less than how to go forward. Remember the Wizard of Oz?
13 Keeping A Child Away From The Other Parent Can Backfire Separated parents who undermine their child's relationship to the other parent wind up hurting their child and themselves. Here's how...
14 Need Help Sorting Out A Parenting Plan? Here are the four strategies available to parents...
15 What’s a kid to do when parents hate each other? What to do when parents despise each other and the child is caught in the middle...
16 Mediating Child Behaviour Problems Between Separated Parents – A Case Scenario A child of separated parents acts up at school. Each parent blames the other. Custody is now in dispute...
17 Settling Custody And Access Cases Want to settle more cases? Change your language and move from position to interest. Here's what it's about...
18 Parents Have Input Until The Gavel Comes Down You may not like the assessment recommendations, but you have time to settle before the gavel comes down...
19 Recently separated? Practice As if Parenting Some parents give in to their guilt, others feel they have to compete with the shower of gifts as the other parent tries to buy the relationship with the kids. What's a parent to do? This article will tell you!
20 Parallel Parenting – A form of joint custody When you can't play with, but can play beside... Parallel parenting may be for you.
21 Are you sure you need to go to Court? In some high conflict cases, need isn't the issue. It's irreconcilable parental values - wants. Court may be necessary...
22 Step Away From The “C” Word! The quickest way to escalate conflict between separated parents is with the "C" word. Here is some alternative language to use...
23 Blended family/Kids in distress: What to do? Things were going well. Then one parent remarries, a new family emerges and the kids are in distress. Here's what to do...
24 Divorced? Have a 100% relationship with your kids It's the relationship that counts, not the 50/50 split. Here's what makes the 100% relationship with your kids following divorce.
25 Divorce: What if court wasn’t an option? First came litigation, then mediation... now it's Collaborative Law. Inroads to settling divorce without going to court.
26 Collaborative Law and Social Work In marriages we speak of "goodness-of-fit". The same holds true of some professions. This article looks at the relationship between Collaborative Law and Social Work
27

Parenting Coordinator:

An alternative to running back to Court

If issue after issue keeps taking you back to Court, then consider this service.
28 Assessment Critique: Hired gun or dispassionate opinion If you are going to use an assessment critique, make sure the evaluation is credible. Here's how.
29 Treading on Sacred Ground Some parents who are undergoing separation or divorce involve their child’s daycare or school in their conflict. This article advises against this and offers suggestions to help.
30

Children and Divorce:

The Role of the Early Childhood Educator 

This article instructs Early Childhood Educators and childcare providers how to manage issues arising from custody and access matters. 
31

Getting Kids Out Of The Cross Fire

High conflict parenting battles hurt children. Here are some tips in the interest of the children.
32 Preferred, Estranged or Alienated?

 

In custody and access battles, children's preferences may be at issue but the influences on their preference may be many. This article addresses influences to children's preferences.
33

High Conflict Divorce: Mediating Parenting Plans

When parents are determined to fight, mediation can be a challenge. Here's what's involved.
34 Critiquing Custody and Access Assessments

What if you think your custody and access  assessment is wrong? 

This article discusses "assessment critiques".

35 Process Issues in Custody and Access Assessments This article describes that HOW an assessment is conducted, is as important as what is reported to the integrity of the report.
36 Access and the adolescent: Issues on both sides of the fence Adolescence brings it's own issues to access and residence. Parents need to be flexible and honest to manage the changes.
37 Restricted Access? Consider the long term...

Parents with restricted access may need help directing their attention and activities to develop relationships for the long term. This article offers suggestions. 

38

Parenting Plan Worksheet

Separated/divorced? Can't sort out the care of your children? Use this parenting plan worksheet to help discuss and develop a parenting plan! 

39

Check out that Counselor

Looking for a good counselor? Ask these questions...

40

Child Custody and Access

This article describes custody and access assessments and what is involved.

41

Child-up Parenting Plan

What if a parenting plan was developed from the kid's perspective?

42

Helping Separated Parents Communicate

Can't get along well enough to communicate effectively. Try this...

43

Inconsistent Parental Access

What to do when the access parent doesn't show up...

44

Parental Alienation

Do some parents go out of their way to make things tough on the access parent?

 

  Special Thanks to Gary Direnfield for these articles.

 

20 Suter Crescent, Dundas, ON, Canada L9H 6R5  Tel: (905) 628-4847  Email: gary@yoursocialworker.com

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