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[quote=Anonymous]Its really very hard when two parents arent on board with parenting.

a small example: the other day DS was in a grumpy mood and had not finished his homework (which is minimal, he's in 2nd grade). My approach is simply "let's finish this, I'll help you"--sometimes i offer to read an extra chapter to him of a fave book if he's done early and its my night to read to him but otherwise, doiing HW is an expectation. That night, I hear DH saying "hey, if you finish you're homework now I'll give you a dollar." It really annoyed me because 1) we already have a routine 2) I dont want DS to think that he should get *paid* to do his work and 3) we have another super motivated child who does her homework like clockwork, why should her brother benefit from putting it off?

fortunately, we worked this out, but I have seen this before with DH, and I realize that he's not comfortable being the hard ass parent and at some level he doesn't believe our son is capable of actually getting it done without additional bribes.

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