Summary of Carl Knickerbocker's The Parallel Parenting Solution (eBook)

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #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.