Introducing The Clean Record Series

The Clean Record Series is the first series from Both Homes Press: practical books for parents whose co-parenting happens in writing — in texts, emails, and co-parenting apps — whether they want it to or not.

The series takes its name from the discipline at the center of every book: the Clean Record Method. Pause before you answer. Trim the message to the one thing it must do. Send the short, neutral version. Log what was agreed. Four steps, applied to everything from a changed pickup time to a three-page rant — because the thread you are writing today is the record someone may read cold in six months, and it should read well.

Book 1 — Co-Parenting or Parallel Parenting with a Toxic Ex

By Dana Whitaker · Paperback $16.99 · Kindle $9.99 · 192 pages · 6 × 9 in
Paperback ISBN 978-1-7353931-4-8 · Ebook ISBN 978-1-7353931-5-5

The first book in the series is a script book: 55 word-for-word replies for the messages high-conflict co-parenting actually produces — scheduling fights, money demands, holiday ambushes, messages routed through the children — each with what never to send, what to do if they escalate, and the principle underneath. It closes with a full move to parallel parenting for readers whose situation has outgrown co-parenting altogether. The full title record, including the complete description, is in our Catalog; the reading and the free Pre-Send Checklist live on the author's site.

Book 2 — The Parallel Parenting Playbook

By Dana Whitaker · In production

The second book goes deep on the arrangement Book 1 introduces: parallel parenting as a complete system — disengaged communication, house-by-house routines, exchanges without contact, and a record that maintains itself. It is in production now; formats, ISBNs, and dates will be added to its catalog record when they are set, and announced here when there is something definite to say.

How the series will grow

By reader problem, not by calendar. Each new title has to earn its place the same way the first two did: a cluster of messages real parents are receiving, a set of replies that can be verified against the house standards, and a gap the existing books don't already cover. When a third book exists, this page's series will say so — with its record, its ISBNs, and nothing promised before it is real.