Is Buying Duplicates of Children’s Personal Items the Secret to Peaceful Co-Parenting?
Anyone who has raised children remembers the constant scramble to find missing items. All the socks in your child’s sock drawer may be in perfect formation, but the one pair that landed outside the hamper and missed the most recent load of laundry is the only one your child is willing to wear today. After the last big rainstorm, you put your child’s rain boots in the garage next to everyone else’s rain boots, and now they are no longer there. You cook dinner six nights per week, but the one night per week that your spouse cooks, he constantly interrupts what you are doing to ask you about the locations of the garlic powder, the potato peeler, and so many other kitchen items that are in the same places they always are. The worst is when your spouse asks you, in a panic, to help find items that you never knew existed, and to this day, you are not sure if they do or if your spouse is just imagining them. Sometimes this constant frantic search for missing belongings boils over into divorce, but this doesn’t always solve the problem, because it is even more annoying when your ex-spouse accuses you of failing to send school supplies and other important items to your house with your children. For help drafting a parenting plan that can act as a buffer to these conflicts, contact a Boca Raton child custody lawyer.
Two Swimsuits, Zero Conflict?
It takes practice to settle into the routine of co-parenting. The first time your kids spend the weekend with your ex-spouse, you are constantly wondering how things are going. It is common, during the first year, to get frantic texts from your ex, asking you to bring your child’s ice skates, orthodontic retainer, or other piece of equipment that your child left at your house before your ex picked her up for the weekend.
With time, you will make sure to pack the supplies that your child will need to transport back and forth. For inexpensive items, like toothbrushes and sweatshirts, it makes sense to have a complete set at each parent’s house. If your ex is so cheap that she complains about having to buy additional clothing for your child to wear at her house, you probably dodged a bullet by getting divorced. If your ex is so controlling that he keeps making you interrupt your work or your outings with friends to bring him your child’s soccer cleats, the best option might be to rearrange the activity schedule or the parenting plan so that there is one parent per equipment-intensive extracurricular activity.
Contact Schwartz | White About the Minor Annoyances of Co-Parenting
A South Florida family law attorney can help you reduce the stress of co-parenting by drafting an airtight parenting plan, even if the things that used to annoy you about your ex are even more noticeable now that you are co-parenting. Contact Schwartz | White in Boca Raton, Florida about your case.
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