EmberJS: force transition to parent route

I've got two routes: a main route, called parent, and a child route of it called parent.child. When something happens (let's call it X) in parent.child, I want to transition to parent, but since technically we're already there, Ember does nothing.

// 'parent.child' controller
this.transitionToRoute('parent');

So I want to know if there's a way to force this "transition". The reason is that there's code in parent that needs to re-run after X occurs.