Dr. Christina G. Yoshimura

You may never have articulated “who does what” in your marriage, and you fell into patterns based on default behaviors. In divorce, you get a new opportunity to set a division of tasks with your co-parent to make sure nothing is slipping through the cracks.

When the process of making parenting decisions after divorce becomes hard, many people turn to their lawyers and to the court for help.

In working with divorcing or divorced co-parents on their communication, I introduce them to what I call "The S Model." It's a model I created to simplify ideal co-parent communication into three separate qualities that should make up your message.