A child’s life is profoundly changed forever as a result of divorce.
Holidays, vacation, and daily life becomes segmented between who households as parents no longer operate as a unified team.
But as more and more parents work to co-parent, children can still feel like their family functions as one unit.
Co-parenting is when divorced parents decided to support and respect each other so that they can have equally active and healthy relationships with their children.
There are many long-term positive effects on children when their parents co-parent.
It improves their behavior, helps them maintain relationships and can improve their school work.
According to the Huffington Post, here are 12 positive effects co-parenting can have on your kids:
1. Children feel loved and that their emotions matter
2. Children have positive behavioral outcomes and their socio-emotional development becomes well-balanced allowing them to enjoy their childhood and have a healthy upbringing
3. Children can properly develop self-esteem and confidence and are able to express themselves when they have to communicate
4. Children feel they can communicate openly without fear which reduces their level of anxiety and fear
5. Children admire and are proud of their parents who can encompass class, dignity and respect for the other parent(s)
6. Children maintain strong bonds with both parents which helps them to develop healthy attachments
7. Children are able to connect with their stepparents without shame or guilt
8. Children love their parents equally and stay connected without feelings of betrayal and fear
9. Children respect their parents and everyone else in the mix and do not carry feelings of resentment or anger into adulthood
10. Children do not feel rejected knowing that their parents are making a conscious effort to co-parent in harmony
11. Children perform with ease at school and within their day-to-day activities
12. Children feel that he/she is part of the family and no longer feels responsible to fix things between their parents or protect one of their parents from the other
Co-parenting can be tough, Laura Dee and her ex-husband seem to have it down pat.
While most divorced couples wouldn’t dream of vacationing together, she and her ex-husband concocted a plan to surprise their children with the fact that dad would be joining them on vacation.
Dee and her children’s father have been separated for eight years and realized their children were hurt by their separation at times when they would do things like vacation.
“As parents seeing our children upset is hard, all we want is to make our children happy. Co-parenting is hard for many people but we are proud of what we have achieved with bringing our children up,” Dee told Daily Motion.
Dee and her children, Darcie and Callum, were at the airport headed to Cyrus for a vacation.
As they were walking through the airport, their dad appears out of the crowd to surprise them.
The kids are so happy to see their dad and give him big hugs.
But they broke down in tears when they learned that he was coming on vacation with them. Their reaction is absolutely heartwarming.
You can watch it in the video below.
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