Long Distance Parenting: A Guide for Divorced Parents (Signet)

Professional therapists know that a dynamic, caring relationship with both parents--even if one is living far away--is essential for a child's healthy emotional growth. This supportive guide is filled with solutions to long-distance parenting problems. Drawing on a wealth of inspiring and workable success stories, an experienced family therapist, who has been a long-distance parent herself, tells you: The main ingredients for being a successful long distance parent. Dozens of ways to stay in daily contact with a faraway child. Your legal rights as a long distance parent. The necessary balance between your needs, your child's and a step family's. Techniques to reestablish contact when you've been out of touch. And hundreds of suggestions for keeping the child you love emotionally bonded to you--even if you are a thousand miles away.