Planning for Parenting Time: Ohio's Guide for Parents Living Apart

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Which Schedule Should We Choose? CHILDREN BENEFIT WHEN PARENTS: • Help their child have regular contact with the other parent by phone, letter, audio and videotapes, e-mail, and other forms of communication • Keep predictable schedules • Are on time and have their child ready when it is time for the child to go with the other parent • Exchange their child without arguing • Support the child’s relationship with the other parent • Let their child carry “important” items, such as favorite clothes, toys, and security blankets with them between the parents’ homes • Follow similar routines for mealtime, bedtime, and homework time • Handle rules and discipline in similar ways • Support contact with grandparents, stepparents, and other extended family so their child does not lose these relationships • Are flexible so their child can take part in special family celebrations and events • Give as much advance notice as possible to the other parent about special occasions or necessary changes to the schedule • Provide the other parent with travel dates, destinations, and places where their child and the parent can be reached when on vacation • Establish workable and respectful communication with the other parent • Plan vacations around their child’s regularly scheduled activities • Have good communication about doctors’ appointments or school/social events. CHILDREN ARE HARMED WHEN PARENTS: • Make their child choose between them • Question their child about the other parent’s activities or relationships • Make promises they do not keep • Drop in and out of their child’s life • Are inconsistent in using their parenting time • Argue with or put down the other parent in front of their child or where their child can overhear • Discuss personal problems with their child or where their child can overhear • Use their child as a messenger, spy or mediator • Stop or interfere with parenting time because child support has not been paid • Do not show respect for each other • Undermine their child’s relationship with the other parent. 8
Parenting Time Schedules PARENTING TIME SCHEDULES The following schedules are just ideas that may or may not work for your children. Feel free to use one of the numbered schedules or design a schedule that works best for your children, based on work, school, activities and other considerations. Use a blank calendar to design the schedule that best meets your needs. See sample of completed schedules on pages 12 and 13. For your convenience, a full-sized blank calendar is located on page 80. It is recommended that you read the Child Development section that applies to your child before deciding on a parenting time schedule. Parenting Time Schedule Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 9
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