Bates Parenting and Musings

It's no secret that our kids will push our boundaries, and it is also no secret that husband and wife will often not agree on how things should be handled when it comes to discipline. How do you find a balance? Is there such a thing? What happens if both parents are on two different playing fields but trying to play the same game? Well, In my experience, it means more communication. And that is not an easy thing. I am a BYU Idaho student right now and in the midst of that, we are raising toddlers and teenagers. It has by far been the hardest part of our parenting journey. We are still getting up in the middle of the night to find binky's and make bottles, but we are also managing cell phone usage and appropriate dating and attire conversations. The easiest way to explain it is that we are up from sun up to sun down making parenting choices. And, we rarely agree. In my parenting class this semester, we learned a new way to look at our relationships through "The Parenting