CoParentSpace: Co-Parenting & Divorce Support
Calm co-parenting and divorce support for separated parents. Short, steady episodes on custody, handovers, communication, high-conflict exes, blended families, and healing after divorce. No outrage, no taking sides. coparentspace.com
Episodes
52 episodes
The 6-month rule. Why timing matters more than feeling ready while co-parenting (All ages) | CoParentSpace
You've met someone. It's been a few weeks. You feel something you haven't felt in a long time, possibly years. You're sleeping better. You're laughing at things again. The horizon has light in it for the first time since the separation....
How to Handle Bedtime When You're Co-Parenting Across Two Homes
Your child's bedtime isn't just another routine, it's the most important fifteen minutes of your day. In this episode, Remy explores why bedtime is the moment where co-parenting matters most, and what you can do to make it work across two homes...
Toddler Routine Across Two Homes: What Actually Has to Work (Ages 1-3)
Tuesday afternoon. Your eighteen-month-old has just woken from her nap. She walks into the kitchen with one sock on, holding the soft toy that has been with her for fourteen months. She looks at you. She looks at the door. She says, Daddy?<...
School Morning Routine for Co-Parents: How to Stop the Chaos Across Two Homes
If school mornings are chaos - the PE kit is at the other house, the reading book is missing, your child arrived last night tired and hasn't landed yet - this episode explains why two-home mornings are harder than single-home mornings, and give...
When the schedule is no longer up to you | CoParentSpace
Your daughter is fourteen. The schedule has held for years. But now she wants to stay at the other house on Thursdays because her best friend lives nearby. Or she doesn't want to come to yours on weekends anymore because her social life has mov...
Telling your child you're separating. The first conversation (All ages) | CoParentSpace
Saturday morning. The kitchen is quiet. The children are still asleep upstairs. You and your co-parent are sitting at the table. There's coffee. Neither of you is drinking it. You've been awake since 4:30. You've rehearsed sentences in your hea...
How to choose a schedule that works for your child (All ages) | CoParentSpace
Wednesday night. The kids are asleep. You've been on Google for forty minutes. Three browser tabs open with different schedule templates, each one called something like most popular or best for kids. Your co-parent sent a different option last ...
How to split costs without keeping score (All ages) | CoParentSpace
Wednesday night. Eleven seventeen. You're on the sofa with your laptop open to a spreadsheet you started three months ago. Two columns, your name and your Co-Parent's name, with a running tally underneath each.This episode gives you a c...
The first principle. Tone over content. (Co-Parenting) | CoParentSpace
Tuesday morning. Your phone is on the kitchen counter. The screen lights up with a message from your Co-Parent.This episode gives you a clear, practical framework based on attachment science and clinical research.CoParentSpace -...
When to bring a mediator in during a divorce or co-parenting (All ages) | CoParentSpace
You've been circling the same topic for three months. The school decision. The summer schedule. The way the finances are working. You've talked about it. You've messaged about it. You've sat down once, at the café, and tried to work through it....
Who calls the GP while Co-Parenting (All ages) | CoParentSpace
It's Tuesday morning. Your child wakes up with a fever of 38.6. They're listless. They have a sore throat. They're at your home this week; they're due to switch to your Co-Parent's home tomorrow evening.In this episode of CoParentSpace ...
When the two homes aren't in the same city after divorce (All ages) | CoParentSpace
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 throu...
Why your child is acting out after divorce (All ages) | CoParentSpace
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 ...
Your child is grieving your divorce too (All ages) | CoParentSpace
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 ...
Different rules, same values while co-parenting (All ages) | CoParentSpace
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 u...
When your child has been diagnosed (All ages) | CoParentSpace
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...
When your co-parent doesn't show up (All ages) | CoParentSpace
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 evaporate...
The first big holiday after separation (All ages) | CoParentSpace
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...
The bedtime ritual that travels during divorce (All ages) | CoParentSpace
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 differen...
The two-house potty training plan during divorce (Ages 0–3) | CoParentSpace
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...
Homework. Who does what, where during divorce (Ages 4–12) | CoParentSpace
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 wh...
The teen who doesn't want to go to one home in a divorce (Teens 13+) | CoParentSpace
Friday afternoon. The schedule says your son is at the Co-Parent's tonight. He's at your house, lying on the sofa, looking at his phone. The pickup is in twenty minutes. He hasn't packed.In this episode of CoParentSpace we get practical...
When your child asks why you got divorced (All ages) | CoParentSpace
Tuesday evening. Your seven-year-old is in the bath. You're sitting on the closed lid of the toilet, scrolling through your phone, half-listening. She's been washing her hair without saying anything for a while. Then, without looking at you, sh...
The 2-2-3 co-parenting schedule (Ages 4–7) | CoParentSpace
Saturday morning. You're at the kitchen table with your Co-Parent over a video call. You have a calendar in front of you. You're trying to work out a schedule that gives both of you real time with the kids and doesn't drive your six-year-old in...
School fees, term by term (All ages) | CoParentSpace
Late August. The email arrives at 9:14am. Term 1 fee reminder. Payable by 31 August. Please confirm the payee for invoicing purposes.In this episode of CoParentSpace we get practical about school fees, term by term — what actually helps...
