Brette Sember

How to Parent with Your Ex

This ground-breaking book is a special “flip” book, with one side for custodial parents and one side for non-custodial parents. This is the only book on the market that specifically talks about how to live with a visitation schedule after a divorce or separation.

Written by an experienced family law attorney, this is the roadmap you need for parenting after the divorce.

Hands on, practical advice is offered about the day to day things that can derail a visitation plan. Many families return to court again and again, trying to modify or change visitation plans. This book helps you avoid visitation pitfalls, explains how to modify the plan yourself and most importantly shows you ways to make it work without killing each other or upsetting your child.

Tip sheets, charts, schedules and other important organizational tools offer the help every parent needs to make a visitation plan work. The book’s emphasis is on creating a life for your child that is free of arguments, disputes, and bad feelings. This book includes extensive appendices with resources for the reader. A separate resource list is included for Canadian parents.

Two Ways to Order Online

"A family law attorney, Sember presents a flip book for divorced parents - one half for residential parents, the other for nonresidential parents. Each part offers commonsense advice on similar topics, e.g., long-distance parenting, dealing with the other parent, holidays, and scheduling, with content customized to the appropriate parenting role. Sember's level of empathy is as refreshing as it is unexpected; she focuses on the child's best interests a la Mary Ellen Hannibal in Good Parenting Through Your Divorce, often advising readers to suck it up for their kids' sake. Direct and encouraging in tone, Sember frequently dictates conduct (e.g., speak with respect, do not yell) and presents lists of dos, don'ts, things to say, and things not to say. If you're looking for affordable advice (from a lawyer, no less), this is good counsel. Highly recommended.
- Library Journal

Foreward Magazine Review

The following reviews are from previous edition entitiled "The Visitation Handbook".

Parenting Magazine: Editors' Pick

"Plenty of useful advice on how to deal with post-breakup life...Subjects - everything from helping your child deal with the back-and-forth shuttle to handling long distance - are addressed in a simple-to-use format that makes a tough topic a little easier to cope with." - Jason Zahorchak, Parenting Magazine

S P A R C
"Separated Parenting Access and Resource Center"
RATING

About.com
RATING

"This is a book I'd like to see all divorced parents read!"; "Good if you are really new to divorce and visitation"; "You owe it to your kids to get this book!"; "An Informative and Practical Guide". From The Divorce Center

Read additional reviews from:

Momsvoice.com
Chicago Parent
The Stepparenting Journey
Library Journal
Divorce Step.com
The Step Family Association of America

Read a review from AALLNET.org
(On page 12 of PDF File)

"Home for the Holidays: Alone But Not Blue"

Read the author's monthly column,
Parental Guidance: Everything You Need to Know for Parenting Together Apart,
at Divorce Interactive.

Hear Brette talking about divorce and custody on:

The StepFamily Radio Show

Brette has also appeared on
Voice America’s Divorce Talk Show


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