Things You'll Need:
- Patience
- Love for your children
- Humility
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Step 1
When going through a divorce, the children's welfare should be top priority. What you do for the future needs to be discussed and determined by both parents, together. Child visitation is a very important part of all of your lives, and it is necessary for the parents to come up with a fair schedule for all parties.
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Step 2
Make an agreement to talk about visitation and anything else involving the children, without getting overly emotional.Use common sense, such as what your work schedules are and how to work it around them so both parents can see the children when they are off.
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Step 3
Make it balanced. Each parent needs to have enough time with the children to keep a good, healthy relationship going.Determine what holidays and vacations each of you will have the children for. Be fair, maybe using every other Christmas, half of summer break, etc....
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Step 4
Determine ahead of time who has to take care of transportation, and a neutral place for picking up and dropping off the children.
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Step 5
Be a little flexible with the determined schedule. If you both agree that you will make exceptions for emergencies and special occasions (such as Mother's Day , Father's Day, or Birthday's), life will run smoother for all involved.
