Brook Olsen: Negative Advocates, Parallel Parenting, and Co-Parenting Without the War

Almost everyone in your life is telling you to fight. Brook Olsen, founder of the High Conflict Diversion Program, has spent years showing parents why that advice so often makes things worse, and what to do instead. Brook has a name for the people pushing you to escalate: negative advocates. They mean well, but the "don't just sit there, fight back" instinct they hand you tends to feed the very war you're trying to end. The alternative isn't going quiet or giving in. It's parallel parenting: ...