The Holidays and Scheduled Parenting
The holidays present special problems for separated or divorced parents with respect to scheduling time with the children. It's nothing that creativity, flexibility and yes, Google, can't overcome. Read more about scheduling parenting over the holidays... Or read more about using technology for parental scheduling...  [and be sure to read the recent New York Times article, linked in our post, concerning this same phenomenon]

In the news
Minnesota trial judges aren't the only onesadvocating alternative dispute resolution (see our last newsletter). In an article talking about politics in particular and the resolution of disputes more generally, former N.Y.  Governor (and attorney) Mario Cuomo concludes "the best way to resolve disputes—individual, corporate, marital and social—is to mediate or use some other alternate devices." Read more... 

Just for Fun
A thought piece of our own on how the principles of mediation might help us to unstick Washington politics.Read more...