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There are a number of ways that schedules of parenting time may need to be adjusted when a child resists seeing a parent.
Most commonly, parenting arrangements are changed to clarify and reduce ambiguity in parenting schedules, particularly in high -conflict cases. The purpose purposes of changes like this is are to eliminate either parent's discretion to avoid complying with the children's parenting arrangements and make sure that the child's time with each parent happens as it is planned to happen.
Sometimes parenting arrangements are changed to reduce a parent's time with the children, particularly when it is suspected that the parent is undermining the child's relationship with the other parent. When the problem is particularly difficult, arrangements may be changed to require that the favoured parent's time with the children be supervised. This will usually only be appropriate as an extreme measure when the parent simply cannot be trusted to refrain from trash-talking the rejected parent to the children and sabotaging the children's relationship with that parent, or just refuses to stop engaging in these behaviours.