Other Resources
Chapter 1: Finding a Schedule For Your Kids
Home Sweet Homes Journal
Combining the benefits of a journal and planner, along with thoughtful affirmations, guided writing prompts, and activities to build your child's resilience and self-esteem, Home Sweet Homes will give your family the structure and support needed to stay connected.
Mighty & Bright Co. Magnetic Calendars
For parents who want to put the kids first during and after a divorce, this unique magnetic co-parenting calendar for kids helps reduce stress and anxiety by showing kids what to look forward to and what to anticipate.
Family Core- App
An app with an online calendar feature, secure document storage, group chats, and location tracking.
Chapter 2: Don’t Forget Kids Need Fun
The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again by Catherine Price
Price makes the case that True Fun - which she defines as the magical confluence of playfulness, connection, and flow - will give us the fulfillment we so desperately seek. If you use True Fun as your compass, you will be happier and healthier. You will be more productive, less resentful, and less stressed. You will have more energy. You will find community and a sense of purpose. You will stop languishing and start flourishing. And best of all? You’ll enjoy the process.
Chapter 4: Send a Piece of Yourself With Your Kids
Life in Five Senses by Gretchen Rubin
For more than a decade, Gretchen Rubin had been studying happiness and human nature. Then, one day, a visit to her eye doctor made her realize that she’d been overlooking a key element of happiness: her five senses. She’d spent so much time stuck in her head that she’d allowed the vital sensations of life to slip away, unnoticed. This epiphany lifted her from a state of foggy preoccupation into a world rediscovered by seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching.
Chapter 9: Teach Your Kids to Find the Good
Atlas of the Heart by Brené Brown
In Atlas of the Heart, Brown takes us on a journey through 87 of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human. As she maps the necessary skills and an actionable framework for meaningful connection, she gives us the language and tools to access a universe of new choices and second chances - a universe where we can share and steward the stories of our bravest and most heartbreaking moments with one another in a way that builds connection.
Other Resources That I LOVE and Discovered After I Wrote My Book :)
Parenting Apart by Christina McGhee
Not only is this book amazing and the parenting handbook everyone needs, but Christina also runs Divorce and Children which you should also look into. Her podcasts are full of so much lived wisdom.
A Kid With Two Homes: Bella Duncan
Bella is a personal friend of mine and I’m OBSESSED with her. She is also a child of divorce and someone who has paved the way for me and my work. I admire her a ton and learn a lot from this girl. Check out her blog, and follow her on Instagram!
The exEXPERTS
Whether you’re considering separation, getting a divorce, or are newly divorced, we can help you survive AND build a thriving life after divorce, too. Find everything you need to know about the legal process (myDIVORCE), your kids and pets (myFAMILY), your money (myWALLET), your stuff (mySTUFF) and beyond (mySELF) right here!
Split Film Series
This two part docu-series is exactly what was needed when I was a kid. Ellen Bruno filmed and interviewed a group of young kids and made her first film. Then ten years later, followed up with the same 12 kids as teens and made her second film. IT’S A WORK OF GENIUS!
Follow Jay Skibbens on Instagram
This single dad is KILLING IT! As a child of divorce, I find his content very healing. It’s so beautiful seeing a present father and choosing what’s best for his kids. He hosts workshops, private calls, and more!