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

Long-Distance Parenting and Relocation
“VIRTUAL PARENTING”
Maintaining contact by phone, letter, text messaging, e-mail, Web cam
and other technological means may be helpful and worthwhile for longdistance
parenting. However, virtual parenting is not an ideal substitute
for regular in-person contact, and should not be used as an alternative
that decreases the parenting time of a parent.
WILD CARDS
Parents can expect pre-teens and teens, at a certain age and level of
maturity, to negotiate with both parents about their living arrangements.
One solution is to build into the schedule some “wild card” days for the
child to choose to expand or contract time inside an otherwise fixed
schedule.
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