Success Strategies for Divorcing Parents with Child Custody Issues

Family reorganization is painful and can create intense emotions that get in the way of making the best decisions. Overwhelmed parents often make choices they later regret. In the worst case scenario family conflicts can escalate in tragic ways. Parents do better when they learn positive ways to resolve their conflict. Children benefit when parents learn how to care for their special needs caused by separating parents. We encourage shared custody, mediation, improved relationship skills, and the use of advanced parenting methods.

You can achieve a positive outcome to family disagreements. With the right knowledge and strategies, you will minimize conflict and resolve family problems before they escalate. We provide parents with numerous tools to help them resolve conflict constructively.

First: Take the Breakthrough Parenting: Moving Your Family from Struggle to Cooperation course online. Send your workbook pages to the address provided to receive a letter of completion.  This letter can be included with your court papers to demonstrate that you are an educated parent that uses psychologically sophisticated methods to parent your child.

• If you live in Los Angeles, you may take the course in person.   For information about the Los Angeles class you may go to www.breakthroughparentingservices.org/classes.htm Or, if you prefer you can take the Home Study version of the Breakthrough Parenting course.
• Click here to read the testimonials we have received from parents who have taken our courses.

Our Guarantee: We stand behind all of our products and programs. While many participants take our online parenting class for personal reasons, others may take the course for a court, probation or other legal requirement. We are so confident in quality and acceptance of our programs, if for any reason this program is not accepted for a court or legal requirement, we will refund your money in full with written proof of decline. It is your responsibility to confirm with the court, judge, probation, or your attorney as to whether a distance-learning parenting program will meet your requirements.  

Second: Use the book and template called Creating a Successful Parenting Plan: a Step-by-Step Guide to the Care of Children in Divided Families. This book is an important tool in helping you and your child’s other parent decide who is going to do what and when, and who will pay for it. This becomes a living blueprint that can be revised as a child grows and family circumstances change.

Third: If you are dealing with parental alienation the best thing that you can do is educate yourself about the problem. You will learn how to be proactive in reversing the alienation.

Read the following articles:

• Parents Who Have Successfully Fought Parental Alienation Syndrome
  This article is excellent for individuals who are at the beginning level of wanting to know more about the problem of parental alienation and parental alienation syndrome (PA/PAS).
• The Costs, Causes and Controversies of Parental Alienation Syndrome
  This article was presented at the Children's Rights Council conference November 5, 2007. This is an in-depth study of the difficulties presented by PA/PAS.

Fourth: Do the questionnaire Am I a Parent Alienator to make sure that you are not engaging in parental alienation. This questionnaire will help you understand what behaviours are parental alienation and what is not.

Fifth: Watch the Gregory Mantel Show featuring Catherine MacWillie and Dr. Major talking about what a problem parental alienation is for children.