The hard part of making something like this work is that if your parents were messed up enough for you need to do this, your concept of an “ideal” parent is probably pretty broken, though perhaps in subtle ways. There were a lot of counterintuitive things I had to realize about parenting that aren’t well-understood in popular culture, to get this kind of thing right.
(Also, if you do get it right, then a lot of the time you can just use memory reconsolidation on the events where things didn’t work out the right way, and then you don’t need the shoulder advising on that topic any more, because the new response is embedded in the schema for responding to situations like that.)
The hard part of making something like this work is that if your parents were messed up enough for you need to do this, your concept of an “ideal” parent is probably pretty broken, though perhaps in subtle ways. There were a lot of counterintuitive things I had to realize about parenting that aren’t well-understood in popular culture, to get this kind of thing right.
(Also, if you do get it right, then a lot of the time you can just use memory reconsolidation on the events where things didn’t work out the right way, and then you don’t need the shoulder advising on that topic any more, because the new response is embedded in the schema for responding to situations like that.)