Card Game
The Co-Parenting Card Game (120 Cards)
What Question Needs to Get Asked About the Kids That Isn't About the Kids?
You can talk about the pickup schedule all day. These are the questions that matter.
Co-parents who are trying to communicate well about their children across two households — including the conversations about parenting philosophy, child needs, and co-parenting dynamics that are harder to have than the logistics.
The Name It First Experience
Co-parents talk constantly — about school pickup times, weekend schedules, doctor appointments, and who forgot to pack the soccer cleats. What they don't talk about is the deeper layer: what each of them believes about how their child needs to be raised, what they're worried about that they haven't named, what the co-parenting arrangement is costing each of them, and what they wish the other understood about being a parent in this situation. The Co-Parenting Card Game gives you 120 questions for the conversations that exist underneath the logistics. Use it in a co-parenting session, recommended by a mediator or therapist, or on your own as a way to name what you want to say the next time you talk. The conversation is the output.
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Sample questions
- What do you believe about how your child needs to be raised that you have never fully said to the other person who is raising them?
- What is the thing underneath the logistics — the worry, the belief, the resentment — that has not been named in your co-parenting arrangement?
- What question needs to get asked about what it is like to be a parent in this situation — that is not about the schedule?
Research basis
Grounded in Emery (1994) co-parenting communication research / Ahrons (1994) binuclear family theory on cooperative co-parenting / Amato (2000) on consequences of co-parenting communication quality for children.
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Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.
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Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.
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The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.
Essential path
Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.
Full depth
Every question. Every scenario, every angle.
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Built for two. You each work your own copy, on your own time — then you bring them together and compare, one answer at a time.
The comparison is the conversation.
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