Respect the other parent’s holiday traditions and religious practices.

If your ex-spouse is religious and you’re not, it would be charitable to let the kids go to worship services with their other parent, even if it’s during your parenting time. At the same time, if your kids have always had a particular tradition with your now-ex-in-law’s, let them enjoy that same custom no matter whose parenting time it falls during. Remember that by divorcing, you asked your children to be very flexible in adapting to the monumental changes in their lives. By continuing most or all your children’s traditions, you show them your commitment to preserving the valuable parts of their existing lives, and you demonstrate respect for the other parent, which will be repaid to you in time.