Top Books for Co-parenting

If you're struggling with co-parenting, need additional help, have no clue what you're doing,

or just want a better co-parenting relationship, make sure to check out these top books for co-parenting below!

The Co-Parenting Handbook

The age of your kids is an important factor when creating a new co-parenting family structure, and The Co-Parenting Handbook: Raising Well-Adjusted and Resilient Kids from Little Ones to Young Adults through Divorce or Separation by Karen Bonnell provides advice and tips for kids of all ages. It offers concrete ideas like a shared list of co-parenting goals (with a sample list included) and co-parenting communication guidelines, but it also addresses the emotional impact of separation, conflict, grief, and recovery on kids.

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Mindful Co-Parenting

Mindful Co-parenting: A Child-Friendly Path through Divorce is written by two clinical psychologists, Jeremy S. Gaies and James B. Morris, which is reflected in their direct yet reassuring style. This easy-to-digest, step-by-step guide is designed to help parents identify their kids' needs and create a comprehensive co-parenting plan that best meets those needs. Many parents will find the guidance on evaluating their conflict level, followed by recommendations on communication-based on that conflict level, incredibly useful.

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Co-Parenting 101

Co-Parenting 101: Helping Your Kids Thrive in Two Households after Divorce by Deesha Philyaw and Michael D. Thomas is an exhaustive guide to parenting across two households. The chapters "Fifteen Things You May Want to Do (But Must Not Do) as a Co-Parent "and "Fifteen Things You Must Do (But May Not Want to Do) as a Co-Parent" are great levelers when you may be tempted to act in a way that's not in the best interests of your child. And because it's written by a formerly married, co-parenting couple, it hits just the right tone.

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Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex

Parenting is hard enough when parents show each other compassion and respect. Co-parenting with someone who's difficult, selfish, and irrational can feel like an impossible task. It might not ever be a walk in the park, but Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex by Julie A. Ross and Judy Corcoran helps make it a little easier. By providing real solutions to tough issues and a range of teaching tools and proven communication techniques, plus a very timely look at how digital forms of communication can be both positive and negative, it's the definitive guide for high-conflict custody situations.

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