Summary of Carl Knickerbocker's The Parallel Parenting Solution

Download or read book Summary of Carl Knickerbocker's The Parallel Parenting Solution written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-10-10T22:59:00Z with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 High-quality coparenting is about parents supporting each other in their roles as parents, which helps them be better parents. Low-quality coparenting is about parents undermining each other in their roles as parents, which hurts them as parents. In the case of divorce, high-quality coparenting involves a parent supporting their ex in their role as a parent. Low-quality coparenting involves a parent undermining their ex in their role as a parent. -> The two types of Coparenting are high-quality and low-quality. High-quality Coparenting is about parents supporting each other in their roles as parents, which helps them be better parents. Low-quality Coparenting is about parents undermining each other in their roles as parents, which hurts them as parents. #2 There is such thing as high-quality Coparenting, and it’s called Parallel Parenting. It is an approach to post-divorce parenting in which the relational dynamic promotes each parent being able to parent as their best selves in the role of parent without regard to one another. #3 Co-parenting is about supporting each other in our parental roles, not undermining each other or trying to convince ourselves that we’re right and our ex is wrong. That’s how you end up with low-quality coparenting and bad parent-child relationships. #4 HCPs are psychologically abnormal. Normal techniques do not work with them because they are psychologically abnormal.