In our house, the kids know that Dad is “way more funner” than Mom, and that Mom is “more snuggly” than Dad. Dad is good for a two hour Lego session, and Mom is the one to holla at for a living room dance party. It’s true that we approach parenting differently, but in the end we both want the same thing for our kids: college scholarships so we don’t have to pay for years of beer, pizza, and questionable choices.
Here are a few of the ways we do things differently.
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I just found your blog and I love it! Our parenting styles are very much a like and it feels good to know that Im not the only mom who tells it like it is and gets crazy mad sometimes. And PS snuggles with mom always ends with kids off the chair bc they just cant sit still and stop fighting.
Thank you! I'm glad you can relate to my ramblings. 🙂
EXACTLY like our house!!!! Love reading it from someone else. Jason is for sure reading this tonight!Thanks for sharing.
Ha! I have no doubt your three boys have knocked over a chair or two!
Yep, yep, and yep. Very familiar with this! And although my girls are both very much daddy's girls, they turn out more and more like me in their personalities and thinking patterns. Kind of odd how that all works out~
I find the shaping of personalities to be so interesting. I love watching my kids growing into their own, but with bits of us sprinkled in.
OMG…the bedtime and middle of the night is SO CLASSIC!! I think your chart really illustrates how our children get different things from each parent (and how each is necessary and helps add up to shape them)
Thanks! I do love that he's like that with them, even if it annoys me that they think he's the funny one!
Quit spying on me! This is exactly how it goes down in my house. 🙂
I'm glad you could relate!
Um, yes. All of this. It's all true!
I'll bet it's extra true at your house with all of those boys!
Yes to every single one of these! Especially the bedtime one. What is the logic in making kids all spazzy right before their heads hit the pillow?
It’s nutty, and my husband and kids love it. It’s probably their favorite time of day.
Boy are you so right. And it seems no matter what Dad is having a blast with the kids and we are either worrying, working our emotions into a froth or working in the literal sense. Gah!!!
Someone’s gotta be the fun one, right? 😉
Uhm, yes. You forgot the ‘Can we have dessert?’ and mom saying have an apple, and dad running to the store for ice cream bars!
Ha! I’m with Dad on that one. 😉
HAHAHAHAHA!