How To Help Your Child Adapt To Joint Custody

How can I help my child adapt to joint custody?

It very much matters how well each parent helps the child with the transition to the other home. So they need to be organized and pack their bag so that they have their familiar toys and things that they like to do, and help them anticipate that they're going to have a good time with the other parent, and that the other parent loves them and they're looking forward to being with them. That's the best of all possible worlds. The problem is that some parents make the ordinary, common separation anxiety that most children feel worse by adding to it, instead of reassuring them and minimizing that. Already they have some fear about this, but help them anticipate what a good time they're going to have with their mother or with their father.