Child-Centered Divorce vs Divorce-Centered Childhood | Co-Parenting Tips

11 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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Co-parenting specialist Mary Levin says you can't control your ex's behavior, only your own. When you fight fire with fire, kids get burned. A child-centered divorce means managing your responses so your kids inherit a positive story, not a harmful one.

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Tips for co-parenting children through a divorce. I'm Mary Levin, co-parenting specialist, and my favorite phrase for parents going through a divorce is, when you fight fire with fire, kids get burned. You cannot control how your co-parent is behaving, but you are 100% in control of how you respond. How you handle conflict will either give you a child-centered divorce, or you will have a divorce What story do you want your children to tell? What story do you want your children to tell?

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