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[quote=Anonymous]One possibility regarding getting your child into therapy if you are still in the process of negotiating your parenting plan is putting some areas of parenting responsibilities into a "parallel parenting" category. That means one parent is responsible for  particular aspects of a child's life and the other parent is responsible for others. It is a rather "trendy" way to get around parents who have shared custody who are in conflict much of the time. I'm not a fan of it overall--and I think the trend is heading back toward realization that the answer to high conflict in shared parenting is a change to one parent being primary parent.  The latest evidence supports that option strongly.  Now back to parallel parenting. If you have no chance of getting out of a shared parenting arrangement then a parallel parenting approach, done carefully and discretely, can make a big difference. Remember, the narcissist wants the glory but not the hard work. So you take all health-related areas and suggest to the narcissist parent that they take extra-curricular activities...or something relatively innocuous. I know, I know, the visions of the narcissist parent berating your child for missing that easy shot in basketball immediately flashes before your eyes and as I said, parallel parenting is not my favourite option, BUT, hey, being responsible for "health" allows you to arrange for therapy/counselling for your child without the need to consult the narcissist at all!
Hope that helps.  [/quote]

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