Sentences with phrase «pit you against the other parent»

Not exact matches

Your emotions and your brain may seem like they're pitted against each other, but in reality you need both to parent well.

That sets up a power play between child and adult, pitting child and adult against each other in a way that breaks down the warm connection the child needs with his parent in order to feel secure.

Pitting yourself against other non-food allergic parents creates trouble from the start.

The decision represents the end of a years - long battle over the future of Playground 89 on West 89th Street that pitted fellow parents and residents against each other over the renovation, which many argued was needed to prevent injuries to kids.

Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan are the parents who talk about her like she's not there and are constantly pitting 6 - year - old Maisie against the other.

The law's fiercest critics blast the parent trigger as a hostile approach that inherently pits parents against teachers, district officials, even other parents.

Dean Vogel, president of the state's other big teachers union, the California Teachers Association, called the lawsuit, which is financed by Students Matter, «an ideological red herring, financed by billionaires to pit parents against teachers.»

The fight pitted parents against teachers, school board members, and other parents.

CO-LOCATIONS — The state MUST develop a better process in determining co-locations in public school buildings in New York City because it is pitting parents against each other.

Parents and teachers have historic, close ties to each other; the parent trigger process pits parents against teachers and undermines home - school partnerships, which are critical to student sParents and teachers have historic, close ties to each other; the parent trigger process pits parents against teachers and undermines home - school partnerships, which are critical to student sparents against teachers and undermines home - school partnerships, which are critical to student success.

During and immediately after divorce, a custodial parent may have reasonable fears that grandparents on the other side will pit the children against him or her.

By bringing a team of trained professionals together to help couples restructure their relationship in an environment that does not pit them against each other, parents in Collaborative Divorce learn how to communicate so that when they need to both be present at an event for their children, family or friends, they are able to do so.

Divorce has a reputation for being a long, arduous and contentious process that pits both spouses against each other in a vicious, no - holds - barred court fight to determine everything including division of assets, spousal maintenance, parenting time, and child support.

Of course it pits one parent against the other.

It is well documented and proven that long drawn out custody battles that pits parents and children against each other causes permanent damage, emotional damage (parental alienation), and behavioral problems like drug use, smoking, early pregnancy, dropping out of school; and long - term health problems like depression, anxiety, and suicide.

While this case was more high - profile than most, there are many other acrimonious situations where one parent is pitted against the other, a behavior pattern that causes significant and long - term harm to the entire family system, especially the children.

Because of its structure, the court system ends up pitting one parent against the other so that there are winners and losers.

In Divorce Court, the children often become pawns in the parents» fighting over child support payments, and are pitted by one parent against the other to attempt to gain some advantage in the courtroom battles.

«You pit two parents against each other, so when you do that, you create conflict, you create competition,» he said.

In some cases, the children take advantage of the conflict between parents that they pit one parent against the other to get what they want.

Because Illinois has not adopted Presumptive Shared Parenting, both parents are pitted in battle against each other for the parenting rights to their child or Parenting, both parents are pitted in battle against each other for the parenting rights to their child or parenting rights to their child or children.

Parents are essentially pitted against each other from the very beginning, and this can be very hard on children who are already struggling with the idea of divorce itself.

Because the collaborative law and mediation processes are non-adversarial, it allows parents to have the opportunity to create a partnership for the parenting agreement, rather than an environment that pits one against the other.

If a real diagnosis of dysfunction needs to be made, then appoint a team to gather facts and analyze patterns of behavior, rather than pitting the parents against each other.

The Family Court System is an Adversarial System that ultimately pits two possibly good parents AGAINST each other in a battle of winner takes all as exampled in the movie and it's title Kramer vs. Kramer.

But Ludmer, an expert in the area of parental alienation — when a child is pitted against a parent in a breakup — says there are serious ramifications on the other side of the equation.

The other parent is pitted against their child in order to regulate the anxieties of the alienating parent.

When children of divorce spend time in two different homes, it is easy for them to pit one parent against the other.