Managing visits, school drop-offs and pick-ups, sport schedules, extracurriculars, and medical appointments is often a Herculean task in the best of circumstances, let alone when parties are attempting to co-parent. Often, this creates challenges and frustrations as parties attempt to navigate parenthood and the divorce process.
Co-parenting apps are often used to help with these issues. Many of these co-parenting apps contain a parenting time calendar, secure and documented calling and messaging, shared expense tracking, information storage, and even GPS check-ins. These apps also give parents the ease of no longer needing to scour through texts, DMs, emails, et cetera. All responsibilities that are related to the coordination, planning, expenses, and communication with a co-parent are in one app.
It’s also great practice to keep any disagreements between you and your co-parent within the messaging system in the app. When arguments stay within the co-parenting app, your children are then protected from overhearing or witnessing any stressful or upsetting conversations. Further, these apps are password protected. So even if your children borrow your phone, they won’t be privy to those adult conversations.
Currently, many phones can delete messages or unsend messages. Co-parenting apps automatically document everything, leaving no room for any manipulation or possible deleted messages. Furthermore, many of the apps show you when a party has read the message, eliminating disagreements about whether a parent was notified. And because the co-parenting app documents everything, some of these co-parenting apps allow you to create a PDF record of activity, which can save you a lot of time and money should you need to hire an attorney.
Co-parenting apps to check out**:
**This is not an exhaustive list but are some of the more common ones used in both Missouri and Kansas.
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