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Reply to "Dealing with a spouse who's gotten very competitive with me about parenting"
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[quote=Anonymous]Take a parenting class together or read the same parenting book together. This is a control issue and sometimes spouses need to know the "best way" to resolve these little parental skirmishes. Works well for DH and me -- when we agree on a method that's supported by a book, we can defer to the book instead of getting huffy that the other is "doing it wrong." It's also helpful to set up the general rule that you'll both try to be consistent, but when one parent is "in charge" they are in charge, and the other parent doesn't interfere. Oh, and time outs aren't age-appropriate before age 2. Until then, you redirect and/or don't create the environment for them to do things you don't like (i.e., if you know your kid is a food thrower, you either redirect and stop the throwing and then continue with the meal as normal, and/or you feed them one bite at a time until they outgrow the throwing). [/quote]
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