Dealing with School Zones from Two Homes with Parenting Expert Christina McGhee on The Divorce and Beyond Podcast #309

This week, America’s Favorite Parenting Expert, Christina McGhee, returns to Divorce & Beyond with host Susan Guthrie. Christina shares her insights on how to make back-to-school work for your kids, even amid a divorce! 

We are starting a new school year, and challenges for parents, co-parents, and kids come with it. The start of a new school year is stressful and exciting, and if you add family restructuring due to divorce - it can be extremely overwhelming. In this episode, Christina McGhee shares ways to support your kids and encourage openness and connection during back-to-school. 

Christina McGhee, MSW, is an internationally recognized divorce parenting expert, speaker, and author. While splitting up is undeniably hard, Christina believes divorce doesn't have to equal devastation for families. She feels with the right kind of information and support, parents can be a child's absolute best resource when families change. 

Topics and Golden Nuggets include:

• Co-parenting and how to approach the beginning of the new school year 
• How you can use the start of the school year as a connection point
• It may be helpful to give teachers or schools a heads-up about navigating co-parenting transitions, etc. Equally important is to talk to your kids about the changes ahead of time and how that might impact their school experience 
• Creating a co-parenting code of conduct: Create a plan about how you and your co-parent are going to conduct yourselves when in the presence of your children

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About this week's special guest: Christina McGhee

Christina McGhee, MSW is an internationally recognized divorce parenting expert, speaker, and author. While splitting up is undeniably hard, Christina believes divorce doesn't have to equal devastation for families. She feels with the right kind of information and support, parents have the ability to be a child's absolute best resource when families change. 

Throughout her career, she has educated both parents and professionals on how to minimize the impact of divorce on children. In her book, PARENTING APART: How separated and divorced parents can raise happy and secure kids,  Christina offers parents useful strategies for dealing with the “real-life” everyday challenges of coparenting.

 One of her core beliefs is that divorce doesn’t make you a bad parent, it makes you a parent going through a bad time.  Because she is passionate about helping parents get through that bad time, Christina also maintains an active coaching practice that allows her to work with Moms and Dads all over the world.

Most recently, Christina launched an online program, Coparenting with Purpose. Designed to provide moms and dads with an easy, convenient way to access critical information, it’s filled with practical tools and solutions for managing the most common coparenting problems.

Additionally, she has contributed to several other media projects as a featured expert, a content consultant, and a writer/producer. Currently, she serves as a consulting producer and subject matter expert for the documentaries SPLIT: A film for kids and their parents and Split UP: The Teen Years, two compelling films that let kids know they’re not alone and normalize the many feelings and experiences children and teens encounter when parents part.

Over the years, she has been featured on television, radio, podcasts, and in print around the US and abroad. A few places you may have seen her are TODAY Parents, the BBC, The Times, and Parents Magazine.

Married for over twenty-seven years, Christina and her husband live outside of Houston, Texas. As a mom of four (two bonus and two bio) children, she has acquired extensive on-the-job training as a chauffeur, negotiator, short-order cook, scheduler extraordinaire, and finder of all things lost. To find out more,  check her out at divorceandchildren.com

Co-Parenting Specialist Certification Training Program with Christina McGhee: https://mostenguthrie.com/co-parenting-specialist/

Access Christina’s Co-Parent Resource Guide: http://www.divorceandchildren.com/

Christina’s PDF Article: How to Set Kids Up for Back-to-School Success

Christina’s book Parenting Apart, Christina McGhee

Christina on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/divorceandchildren

Christina on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/divorceandchildren/

Christina on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinamcghee

Also mentioned in this episode:

Help Your Teachers Help Your Kids During Divorce with Claudia Brown Coulter on Divorce & Beyond #271

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