Payless Divorce- Navigating The School Year with an Ex

Payless Divorce – Summer is approaching quickly, but the school year is still in session. You and your spouse have recently gotten a divorce or are going through one, and the carpooling, coordinating, and everything else is unorganized. Navigating through the school year with an ex-spouse can be difficult on so many levels.

We’ve got a couple tips to help alleviate the stress and the pain with your ex in order to make the school year run more smoothly.

Tips to Navigate the School Year

1. Checking in with the school office is one of the biggest issues when getting a divorce. Since you don’t want to be a middle man with your ex, make sure the office has their mailing address, email address, and new phone number so they can directly get in contact with them instead of going through you.
2. No need to make your children be a messenger. Children don’t want to be a part of the divorce, so by scanning and emailing school papers to one another will take your child out of the picture.
3. Having clothing at both homes will help deal with laundry issues and transporting clothing back and forth.
4. Money seems to be a high priority issue when getting a divorce. A child shouldn’t be concerned whether or not they can eat lunch that day because you or your ex refused to pay more money. Accepting the fact that paying for certain items such as child support, extracurricular activities and after school events is going to be a part of the deal.
5. Calendars are a great way to set aside most of the problems with carpooling, weekends, and other events that your children need to be somewhere. A calendar will help with daily confusion and pickup/ drop off times.
6. Sometimes it’s even best to have an extra set of school supplies at the other’s house because you won’t have to ever worry about it.
7. Planning ahead can help resolve a lot of the issues you’re having with your ex-spouse while navigating through the school year. Planning teacher conferences to after school parties in advanced will throw some of those worries/ concerns out the door.
8. Try not to get caught up on what’s fair and what’s not fair. Sometimes you have to be the bigger person by accepting it and moving on. Don’t get caught up in emails or text messages either!

Attempting to make your life and your child’s life easier through the school year will only make everyone happy!

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