RE: To spank or not to spank?
September 20, 2015 at 4:59 pm
(This post was last modified: September 20, 2015 at 5:04 pm by BrokenQuill92.)
Thanks for all the input and advice! One of the things I want to avoid is the good cop/ bad cop mentality. Where my kids would know I find the other parents method of discipline distasteful and perhaps try to manipulate either of us. I should know, growing up all I had to do was get teary in front of daddy and my punishment was almost always changed or even completely avoided. And I don't want that, I want to present a strong front, and I don't want Joesph to feel that I don't respect his judgments. At least I get to see how his parenting methods work out since he's raising his nephew. He yells a bit more than I think necessary and doesn't always understand that JT isn't a rough and tumble sort of kid. Jt's a soft spoken bookworm type with a sulky passive aggressive streak. And I admit he can get on your last nerve when he's in his little preteen pouty face mode.