Teens and Tweens Living in 2 Places: Two Homes, Two Rooms, Two Places to Lose Your Stuff

Two teens walk on a city
sidewalk. One is carrying a
guitar and both are carrying
backpacks.

The Internet gives a lot of advice to parents about co-parenting but very little advice to children and teens about the split living that they are required to manage.

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I just learned about this type of split living last week, and I cannot stop thinking about it.

At first, I thought it was a prank. That, for the next five to 15 years, every seven days, you would pack up your homework, your athletic gear, your musical instrument, your retainer, the science project that is one jostle from implosion, your phone/laptop/smart watch and the shoe you have been missing for a month every single Tuesday or Thursday or Saturday and trek over to another house sounds exhausting.