How To Avoid Parenting Problems During Join Custody

How To Avoid Parenting Problems During Join Custody

How can I avoid parenting problems during joint custody?

Being in a breakthrough parenting class or some other modern parenting class to learn positive proactive discipline techniques is going to make a world of difference to avoiding problems during joint custody. During joint custody, a child has to adapt to both families and cope. In a joint custody situation, the other parent isn't there so the one parent has full sway to be really rigid or not. I call it the "teeter totter," when one parent in a joint parenting situation is rigid and the other is permissive and they just keep backing out until they fall off. Both think that they are right, and so the child is pulled back and forth; there's no middle ground in the joint parenting situation. In breakthrough parenting they can find a middle ground where they learn the methods to discipline a child that don't involve negativity, chastising, spanking. There's no reason in the world to spank a child anymore. With the new methods that we have it doesn't even come up. With breakthrough parents that I've trained, they wouldn't dream of hitting their children. They now know win-win ways of solving problems with their children instead of for their children. A very different dynamic.