Half The Time, All The Dad : The 50/50 Custody Playbook for Building a Second Home Your Kids Love, Mastering the Schedule, and Running Two-House Father
Overview
The court order tells you when you have your kids. Nobody tells you how to actually run the life. Until now. You survived the divorce. You got the 50/50 custody schedule. And then reality arrived on a Wednesday afternoon: a second household to build from scratch, a custody calendar you can barely decode, a school that only emails your ex, cleats that are always at the wrong house, and solo mornings, dinners, and bedtimes with no backup and no manual.
The bookstore is full of custody-battle books and difficult-ex books. This is neither. Half the Time, All the Dad is the missing operations manual for divorced dads managing shared custody: a heartfelt, funny, checklist-level playbook for the daily logistics of two-house fatherhood.
Inside, you'll learn how to:
- Set up a second home your kids genuinely love, on a real post-divorce budget, including bedrooms that say "you live here," not "you visit here"
- Master your custody schedule mechanics, whether it's 2-2-3, 2-2-5-5, 3-4-4-3, or week-on/week-off
- End the "stuff shuttle" with the Two-of-Everything Doctrine and a transfer-bag system your kids run themselves
- Make custody exchanges so smooth and boring your kids barely remember them, and handle transition-day meltdowns without taking them personally
- Get on every school list, so the newsletter, the teacher, and the science-fair ambush reach your inbox too
- Choose the right co-parenting app (OurFamilyWizard, TalkingParents, AppClose, and more) for your conflict level and budget
- Build shared-expense systems that keep money fights away from your kids
- Run solo-dad mornings, homework, dinners, and bedtimes that don't melt down, including a field guide to the ponytail
- Communicate with your co-parent like a colleague using the BIFF method, and survive holidays, birthdays, and the empty-house off week
You are not half a parent. You're a full-time dad with a scheduling quirk. This book shows you how to run it like one.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798186956433
- ISBN-10: 9798186956433
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: July 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.35 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.5 pounds
- Page Count: 162
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