A planning and conversation tool for stepcouples who keep ending up on opposite sides when something happens with the kids.
Something happens with the kids....
Someone answers back. Ignores a request. Pushes a boundary. One of you thinks it needs dealing with. The other thinks it's being handled badly, too harshly, too softly, or doesn't need dealing with at all.
And suddenly you're not really talking about what the child did anymore.
You're arguing with each other.
One of you feels undermined.
The other feels judged.
One gets more frustrated.
The other defends, fixes, protects or tries to calm everything down.
And a fairly ordinary parenting moment turns into tension between the two of you.
When The Kids Come Between You is a practical 30-minute conversation tool for stepcouples who recognise that pattern.
You don't have to agree on absolutely everything about parenting.
The aim is to work out how to stay on the same side when you don't.
You'll work through one real situation and:
identify exactly where the parenting issue starts becoming a couple issue
understand what each of you tends to do when things get heated
work out what actually needs dealing with in the moment — and what can wait
decide what each of you will do differently next time
agree a simple phrase you can use when you feel yourselves starting to turn on each other
create a practical plan for the next time the same situation happens
You'll also get a 60-Second Reset you can keep somewhere easy to find for the moments when you're actually in it.
This is for you if...
You regularly find yourselves arguing after something happens with the children.
You feel like your partner automatically defends their child.
You feel undermined when you try to set a boundary.
You hear criticism of your child's behaviour as criticism of your parenting.
You dread bringing things up because you know where the conversation will go.
Or you simply keep thinking:
“Why can't we deal with what happened without it becoming a problem between us?”
How to use it
Download the guide, find an hour when the children aren't around, and work through one ordinary situation that tends to happen repeatedly.
You're not trying to create the perfect parenting strategy.
You're creating a different way of handling the moment before you're both already angry, defensive or panicking.
£15 | Instant digital download
