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Travel Plans for Separated Parents: Navigating Holidays and Joint Custody

Of all the potential conflicts that co-parents have to contend with, vacation and travel schedules are one of the trickiest. You might have a dream...

Summer Holidays: Managing Conflicting Days Off

Holidays can be tricky for parents with joint custody. After all, many companies do not let you take vacations whenever you want! If you’re struggl...

Navigating Joint Custody and Father’s Day

It might take a few months, or even longer, but parents and kids will get used to a new normal after divorce. The kids will become accustomed to sp...

Joint Custody And Mother’s Day: How To Manage If It’s Daddy’s Turn?

Mother’s Day and joint custody present a difficult challenge — if it’s Daddy’s turn, what’s the best way to handle the holiday? If you think of Mot...

5 Things To Embrace Easter With Kids

Easter comes at the right time – spring is in full swing, the weather turns for the better, and there’s plenty of fun to be had. If you’re debating...

Change Request

You’d like to encode a change request in your 2houses’ app but don’t know how to do it? We’ve got something for you – a little tuto video : Enjoy i...

Create an event

You’d like to create an event on your 2houses’ platform but don’t know how to do so? Here’s a little tuto video to explain it to you! :p Hope it he...

Create a parenting schedule

We know how hard it can be when you arrive on 2houses to find your way. This is why we made some tuto videos to be sure that you’ll be okay and tha...

Invite my co-parent

You just logged in 2houses and can’t find your way around? It’s not a problem anymore! We made tuto videos for you. Here’s the first one : How do I...

First steps on 2houses

You’ve just joined 2houses and can’t find your way around? Here are some explanations to configure your account. 2houses will no longer keep any se...

Getting Over A Break Up: 5 Tips On How To Deal With Mutual Friends After Your Separation

The end of your marital relationship doesn’t spell the end of your relationships with your mutual friends. It might seem daunting or confusing, but...

Getting Along with Everyone in a Blended Family

Anyone can start a blended family. Actually getting everyone to blend is a bigger challenge. When you become the spouse or partner of a parent, it’...

Dating After Divorce: When To Tell The Kids

I have been divorced for about three years. I have two teenagers, 13 (a son) and 15 (a daughter). They both live with me, although their father liv...

Why do you feel depressed after a separation?

You are divorced and you feel sad, frighten and lost? Divorce and depression unfortunately are going hand to hand. With an increasing number of cou...

A happy Christmas with separated parents

Christmas is a special time for children and therefore for their parents too. This holiday, which traditionally involves the family unit, can be di...

From ex-spouse to friend: Reinventing relationships after divorce

Your marital relationship is over, but what about your relationship with your in-laws, their relationship with your children, or even your relation...

Joint Custody: How to Deal With Pocket Money

It’s often said parenting doesn’t come with a manual. That’s especially true if you are co-parenting after separation or divorce. Joint custody mea...

Unpaid Child Support: What You Can Do

There are some coparenting situations where child support is a non-issue. If the parents have a true 50/50 custody time split and make roughly the ...

Rebuilding After a Breakup: Tips for Moving Forward

No matter the circumstances, breakups are never easy. A divorce can bring about a grieving process very similar to what happens when you lose a lov...

Managing Life as a Single Parent after Divorce

When a divorced couple has children, life can get very complicated. Each parent is now on their own and suddenly realize all of the small things th...

The difference between estrangement and parental alienation syndrome

Parental Alienation is defined as the deliberate attempt by one parent to distance his/her children from the other parent. An example would be the ...

Starting a New Life After Divorce: When and How to Introduce a New Partner to Your Children

As time passes after your divorce, it’s very likely that you’ll meet someone who becomes an important part of your life and you start considering a...

Co-Parenting: Managing School-Related Expenses

School supplies in every store and cooler weather — depending on where you live — are sure signs of school starting, and it’s not long before the s...

Back to School: Better Organizing for an Easier Co-Parenting Relationship

Back-to-school season means folders, notebooks, and pencil holders are in every store, and with good reason. It’s a lot easier to stay organized wh...

A Blended Family: Finding Your Place as a Step-Parent

Marrying someone who already has children is an experience that can be equal parts challenging and rewarding. If you’re having trouble relating — o...

The Impact of Divorce on Children’s Education

Parental separation can have adverse effects on children as they experience lower psychological wellbeing, which in turn can impact their achieveme...

Separated Parents: Who Gets to Choose the Children’s School?

Whether it’s public, private, online, or at home, the process of picking a school comes up in every separated parent’s life. While who gets to choo...

Divorce Announcement Wording Tips for Your Children

Talking to your children about divorce is never easy. Most spouses are going through an emotionally challenging time and want to minimize the stres...

5 advantages of a Co-Parenting Schedule

For the sake of their children, many co-parents aim to work together. Experts recommend many strategies to contribute to this co-operation, which s...

Co-Parenting Communication Tools: Our Selection of Books to Explain Divorce to Children

When co-parents decide to end their relationship, it is not always easy to know how to tell the children. For families, the divorce process involve...

Divorce With Kids: How Do You Explain It to Them?

Perhaps one of the most challenging conversations you’ll have as a separating parent is with your children. Throughout their lives, you’ve made the...

Joint Custody Schedules: Should Your Child Have Input?

You already know that communication between you and your ex is critical for successful co-parenting. When do you need to start looping your child i...

Mutual Consent Divorce for an Unfazed Break-up

It is never easy to bring a relationship to an end. In particular, if you share children with your spouse, you want to make it as easy as possible ...

How to Talk to Your Preteen About Stress

Preteens, also referred to as tweens, have a lot going on both physically and emotionally. Many preteens go through puberty, a process which often ...

20 Useful Tips for Single Parents Traveling with Young Children

Any parent knows that traveling with young children isn’t the easiest of the things. At times, it can be outright challenging, especially if you’re...

Children and lies: how to react?

It's not unusual for a child to lie on occasion. This isn't saying the behavior is right, but it is an indication that it isn't always a serious co...

Married life on social network

Keeping a marriage alive and well has always been an ongoing challenge for couples. In the good old days, the “mother-in-law” was always blamed for...

What are the 5 best places in the world to go on vacation alone with my ​​children

Summer vacations can be difficult if you are newly separated. Your children may not want to go far away, especially if their other parent still liv...

I’m afraid to make mom or dad sad if…

The most crucial component of successful co-parenting and child happiness is communication. Both parents must communicate amicably and effectively ...

The place of my new partner in the education of my child

Your child’s success and security in life depends upon a good education. So, it is understandable as a parent, you feel responsible and protective ...

How to reconcile professional and private life when we are separated?

After a divorce, you have to try to regain a normal life. This includes getting your personal life and your professional life back together. Despit...

How to avoid jealousy between children ?

Children are exquisitely sensitive. They have to learn a great deal in a short amount of time, so their brains are hard-wired for imitation, repeti...

Get your wallet ready for the divorce

If you believe divorce is in the foreseeable future, it's a smart move to starting planning your finances and budget before divorce proceedings beg...

Putting aside your feelings for the children

Divorce is an unfortunate event that some families have to overcome. The separation of the parents isn't just about the parents; it has a huge impa...

What children understand about divorce by age group

Divorce is a touchy subject with children and especially for parents as they themselves adjust to their situation. Managing and discussing this tr...

Keeping Communication Positive

A divorce or separation can be an emotionally trying time for all involved, but it is important to keep communication between separated parents pos...

Why making your children into “messengers” does not work….

There might be a great temptation to entrust your child with messages - practical ones, or some other kind - that you want to convey to the other p...

Ratings for video games: Protecting our children

With Christmas looming fast, this week we're going to take a look at violence in video games. To protect our children, the European Union has estab...

Oh dear, Mum and Dad are divorcing … How to tell their children?

Nothing works any more, Dad and Mum don’t get along and they’re no longer in love ... and they have decided to separate ...

How to communicate th...

The security blanket, first companion of your child!

Teddy bear, doll, end of colored tissue, old tee-shirt of mom or dad or a sheet, a cover blanket, only one or several security blankets, with somet...

5 tricks to make a success of your evening of Halloween!

You want to spend a terrifying evening with your families and close relationships?
Halloween is coming!
On Thursday, October 31st, 2013, it will b...

Shyness: a curse or a wonderful talent?

Shyness is not a definition but rather a description, behind which as many stories hides… Shyness is a belief, which feeds itself as a snake, eatin...

Dating after a divorce?

Living a divorce is hard to everyone concerned by the situation, and looking for love after being divorced, is sometimes a little bit tricky especi...

Maintaining an effective communication with your children after a divorce

Divorced parents communication is highly important as it has the highest purpose: the well being of the children...

Co-parenting – 5 tips that make going back to school easier!

The summer break is over and going back to school can be stressful not only for children, but for parents who are separated too.
Some tips can help...

Say Hi To Oscar: The New Kid That May Change Health Insurance

USA: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act mandates the opening of health insurance exchanges around the country...

Helping your child through a divorce

Thousands of kids experience the stress of divorce each year.
How they'll react depends on their age, personality...

21 Blogs Sharing Techniques to Help You Talk to Your Child About Severe Weather

Severe weather is something that nearly every area of the country experiences.
These blogs will give you some guidance to tell to your kids...

Understanding Divorce: Insights from a Family Law Attorney

Determining custody can be a difficult, technically challenging, and extremely emotional part of the divorce process...

Gill Ruidant: The Power of Adversity @TEDxLeuven

Gill Ruidant, the CEO and Founder of 2houses.com, performing his speech on "The Power of Adversity" at the TEDxLeuven ...

20 Blogs with Caring Ways to Boost Your Child’s Self-Esteem

Having high self-esteem is something that everyone needs.
Children especially need help developing high self-esteem, because low self-esteem can ma...

Is Divorce Bad for Children?

Many of the 1.5 million children in the U.S. whose parents divorce every year feel as if their worlds are falling apart...

Mini-guide: Ten rules for healthy co-parenting

2houses has published a small guidebook in which we specify 10 important rules for handling the situation of co-parenting...

Big Buck Bunny – Short movie

The plot follows a day of the life of Big Buck Bunny when he meets three bullying rodents, Frank (the leader of the rodents), Rinky and Gamera...

What to do when your child hates school

If your child hates school it is probably not his fault, nor that of his teacher...

Honey, I Blew Up the Kid

Synopsis : Wacky inventor Wayne Szalinski (Rick Moranis) is at it again.
Apparently shrinking his kids was not enough. This time he has inadverten...

Guidelines For Divorcing and Divorced Parents

Follow these guidelines to make the transition of divorce and the process of family restructuring and rebuilding easier for you and your children...

How to build your child’s self-esteem

Simply praising your child can actually do more harm than good. Here’s a comprehensive guide to building self-esteem in children...

Dinosaur Party

Whether they are into t-rexes, fossils or the land before time, most kids go through a dinosaur phase.
Your child and their friends can have a grea...

10 things You should never say to your kids

There are a handful of obviously wrong, damaging and terrible things to say to a child.
But it may surprise you to discover that some seemingly har...

Homeopathy for Children

Homeopathy's origins: The principle of treating “like with like” dates back to Hippocrates but in its current form, homeopathy has been widely used...

The Impact of Parental Alienation on Children

What children of divorce most want and need is to maintain healthy and strong relationships with both of their parents, and to be shielded from the...

Understanding How Assets Get Divided In Divorce

Dividing the family’s property during divorce can be quite difficult, especially if there are significant assets such as houses, rental property, r...

Guide to Step-parenting & Blended Families

When families "blend" to create stepfamilies, things rarely progress smoothly. Some children may resist changes, while parents can become frustrate...

Easy Craft for Kids – The Rain Stick

What is a Rainstick? A long hollow tube partially filled with small pebbles or beans that has small pins or thorns arranged helically on its inside...

Helping Grandkids Survive Divorce

After your child's divorce is announced, your home and the time you spend with your grandchildren should remain as similar to pre-divorce visits as...

Dating after Divorce : The Basics

Dating after divorce: The idea of getting back into the dating scene after years being married is daunting at best...

Stop buying sports drinks and protein bars – Try handmade instead

In a rather sad and ironic state of affairs, individuals exercising to improve health and fitness often fall into the trap of neon colored sport dr...

How to Keep Your Kids Safe on Facebook

Boasting 500 million users worldwide and still growing, Facebook is now ubiquitous. Because of its popularity, minors have jumped onto the socia...

Friday Craft: Eggshell Mosaic

So it’s been a couple years I think since I did a Friday Craft post! Planning for specific crafts is not a strong area for me. I am much better...

What is Diversity? Egg activity

With Martin Luther King Jr Day approaching, consider introducing the idea of diversity and cultural differences to your children. It will be easy...

Stepfamily Success

All stepfamilies come with challenges - the combining of different households and family cultures, the weekend visitations, the dealing with exes...

Divorce : How To Help Your Child at Home and at School

Divorce can wreak havoc on a child’s world and affect her life at school. How much information should a parent give a child’s teacher and other...

Separation and relocation – moving with children after separation

We live in an increasingly mobile society few people stay in the same place in which they grew up – moving for work reasons or just because the...

Divorced Parents: Kids Can Decide Where They Live

Parents who are divorcing often get sucked into a nasty competition when it comes to the kids, with each parent vying for custody of the kids. O...

Christmas Custody Schedules in Divorce

How do divorcing parents handle the issue of Christmas and other holiday periods in custody disputes?  What kind of schedules do North Carolina ...

When a Divorce Makes a Better Dad

Divorce stinks. Don’t get me wrong. The excruciating pain of leaving your child on Mom’s doorstep, of missing holidays and first steps, of havin...

How Grandparents Can Help Grandchildren Adjust To The Challenges Of Divorce

Grandparents are often caught in the tensions between parents when divorce takes place. Eager to help ease the situation, many grandparents are co...

Divorcing parents turn to ‘brainwashing’ children in custody battles

Warring parents are increasingly attempting to “brainwash” their children to get the upper hand in custody disputes, according to lawyers.
 

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Marriage, Divorce And The Economy: No Excuse For Irresponsible Parenting

Is our down-turned economy having an effect on divorce in the United States and other nations around the world? While it's too early for statist...

When Parents Divorce: How to Keep Your Kids Out of It

Since it is a fact that one in two marriages end in divorce in the US, parents have a choice to make the experience manageable for their childre...

Telling Your Children about the Divorce

Children often fear that they will lose one of their parents in a divorce or that their parents will abandon them and they will have to fend for...

6 Things You Should Never Say to Your Child

Do you find yourself saying things to your child during an argument without even thinking about it? Let’s face it, it’s almost impossible to be ...

Easy King Cake

Ingrédients :

1 (16 oz) can of biscuits (regular, not the layered kind but the regular). We use “Grands”
1/4 cup melted butter
1/4 cup suga...

How kids really feel about divorce

When it comes to divorce, everyone is concerned about the kids. Not that everyone who divorces has kids, but we don't seem to have as muc...

Becoming A Stepmom: 3 Strategies For Success

 
 
Are you a current or prospective stepmom? For most people, taking on the role of stepparent is an entirely new experience, and presents cha...

How to display a rapport by category or by period of my expenses

Now that the 2houses new version and its amazing new features are out, we will introduce some of the main new ones here to make sure this new ver...

When Push Comes to Love: Be realistic about kids and divorce

When parents divorce, children do suffer a loss. Sometimes parents have a difficult time seeing that and they make up justifications for what is ...

Eight Tips to Help You Deal With Mixed Emotions After Divorce

After the divorce you may find you have mixed emotions about your ex - spouse.
While you may know that the divorce was for the best, you may find...

Divorce Need Not be Destructive–Here’s Why

Co-parenting after divorce has become an increasingly attractive and sought after arrangement. In contrast to the conventional sole custody in wh...

Disciplining Your Child After Divorce

Child discipline in an intact family is a responsibility shared between Mom and Dad. Once there is a divorce the custodial parent will have to ta...

Is This The Worst Thing You Could Say To A Divorcee?

One of the most common responses that I receive when I tell others that I am divorced is: "Oh, I know how you feel. I just broke up with my boyfrie...

Divorce And Kids: 5 Ways Divorce Benefits Kids

Contrary to popular belief, divorce isn't always negative for kids -- sometimes it's excellent for kids. Here are five ways that your children ca...

Why Parenting Is Easier After Divorce

Emily and William have done everything right. They have been married for 15 years. They have three beautiful kids. They both work -- he's an anal...

The 3 Steps to Becoming a Super Stepmom

Did you know that only about one-third of stepfamily marriages last? The statistic begs the question: What is the deciding factor between the fam...

What is Parental Alienation Syndrome?

Parental Alienation Syndrome is the deliberate attempt by one parent to distance his/her children from the other parent.
The motivation is to des...

Divorce and Parenting: Teaching Valuable Life Lessons to Your Children

As a divorced parent, what lessons and behaviors are you modeling for your children? The messages you convey will influence your children into adu...

The 5 C’s of Divorced Co-Parenting

However you may feel about your ex-spouse, if you have kids, you are still co-parenting. That's right: "Co". As long as you both are committed to...

Helping Children Resist the Pressure to Choose One Parent Over the Other

Some children of divorce naturally feel caught between their parents as they adjust to two homes, two sets of rules, possibly two neighborhoods, ...

Why Does Society Hate Stepmoms?

Fairy tales are one of the oldest, and sturdiest, narrative forms our culture knows. We love to tell them, read them, share them, and, especially...

Why I Finally Stopped Lying To My Teenage Son About Dating

I have an only child. He's smart, funny, and wise beyond his years. I was 25 years old when I gave birth to him. I looked into his eyes as they ha...

Dealing With Divorce: 7 Tips to Protect Your Kids

When a family finds itself in the middle of a separation or divorce, one of the first worries is "what about the children?" Research has shown th...

Must Divorced Fathers Become Second Class Citizens?

Must Divorced Fathers Become Second Class Citizens?
It was the last straw. The Millers (details have been changed) had invited Greg's ex-wife Sus...

8 Tips For a Parent without Primary Custody to Spend Extra Time With the Kids

Only seeing your children every other weekend can be devastating. You miss them when they are not with you, and those few short days does not giv...

Divorce – 4 Signs Your Kids Are Not Alright

After many years of bickering, infidelities, and general unhappiness and upset with each other, Jack and Miranda decided to divorce. To their cre...

6 Tips for Navigating Shared Custody

Picture this: The dust has settled, the property is divided, the visitation schedule is in place and the divorce is final. However, there is some...

Divorce Attorney Tips On Surviving Holidays

Stacy Phillips, Los Angeles celebrity divorce attorney and author of Divorce: It’s All About Control – How To Win the Emotional, Psychological a...

The 6-Step Formula for Positive Parenting Before & After Divorce

Parenting before after divorce can be complex, frustrating and confusing. However, every day parents around the world are coping with the challen...

Flawed Parents, Lacking Parenting Skills, Share “Parallel Custody”

When parents fight for custody of children, both parents attempt to highlight their own parenting skills and to diminish the other’s abilities.  ...

Flawed Parents, Lacking Parenting Skills, Share “Parallel Custody”

When parents fight for custody of children, both parents attempt to highlight their own parenting skills and to diminish the other’s abilities.  ...

Is Alimony Still Necessary?

At a recent workshop I presented on Financial Equality in Marriage, a question about alimony came up. It began an energetic discussion between th...

When Push Comes to Love: Be realistic about kids and divorce

When parents divorce, children do suffer a loss. Sometimes parents have a difficult time seeing that and they make up justifications for what is h...

Made Divorce Mistakes? It’s Never Too Late to Get It Right – On Behalf of Your Children!

Whether you got divorced several weeks ago or it's been several years since your split, most of us can acknowledge that we've made some mistakes...

Top 10 Tips for Divorcing Parents

Divorce does not have to be damaging to children. Here are the ten most important things parents can do to help their kids navigate the stormy sea...

2houses interviewed by The Divorce Source Radio during The Divorce Expo

If you missed our booth at the The Divorce Expo in Novi  (Michigan, USA) here is the article and the interview recorded during the expo by the D...

For kids: Living With a Single Parent

If you live with one parent, you know that a lot of other kids do, too. More than 20 million kids in the United States live with one parent. Separ...

Book: “Co-parenting works” by Tammy Daughtry

The followings videos introduce parts of the book "Co-Parenting works!" which explains you how to deal with co-parenting.
About the author: Tammy...

How to announce your divorce to your child ?

Are you prepared to tell the children about your divorce or separation?  While the conversation will be difficult, it's also an opportunity to l...

Debrett’s Guide to Civilised Separation

"Relationship breakdowns are an all too sad feature of modern life - one in three marriages between 1995 and 2010 having ended in divorce. Howev...

Welcome onboard !

Welcome on 2houses blog !
4 months after the launch we felt the need to rethink our blog. I'm glad to write the first article in the new and fresh ...