Welcome to Getting Curious.

I'm Jonathan Vines and every week I sit down for a cute little 30 minute conversation

with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.

This week I'm Curious about parental alienation syndrome.

So I'm talking with writer, researcher, and developmental psychologist Dr. Amy Baker.

Welcome to Getting Curious, this is Jonathan Vines and this week we're going to be talking

about a very interesting subject. It is parental alienation syndrome with Dr. Amy Baker.

Welcome.

Hi, it's great to be here.

You know, so I think this is a very interesting subject.

You know, it affects a lot of people. My parents divorced when I was five.

I have to say I'm like very lucky. My mom and dad did like very good not doing this unless

they did it like subtly and I like didn't even realize it or something.

But they really went out of their way to like be friends, like co-parent, like even at

the point like my dad when my mom and stepdad would like go on vacation.

He would like come stay at our house and even sleep in their bed so that we wouldn't have

to like go over there because it was like you know like sleep in their bed, you know,

because like it was like too annoying to like go all the way over like to the other side

of town sometimes.

So they engaged in what we call advanced co-parent.

Advanced co-parenting. I love that term. Good job, mom and dad.

Yeah, really. Kudos to them.

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