Often, successes breed further successes, so it can help to start parenting plan talks with “easy” issues. Of course, what is “easy” varies from family to family, but a place to start could be that the children get to be with Mom for Mother’s Day weekend and with Dad for Father’s Day weekend, and that when the children are with one parent, they have the ability to contact their other parent at any time through email or phone as they want. (Same-sex couples might prefer to alternate odd-numbered and even-numbered years for Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, or have the children be with one parent on Saturday and the other on Sunday.)