We confirmed important arrangements with each other.

School pickup lists were maintained through the school, with changes checked by the proper process.

Neither of us treated a forwarded message from another adult as a substitute for speaking directly when something mattered.

We stopped using Lily as a messenger.

If one of us was annoyed about a schedule, the other received the complaint from an adult, not from a seven-year-old repeating words she did not need to carry.

The first time Ethan arrived early for a pickup, I assumed he wanted to discuss something difficult.