Did you and your partner discuss parenting styles before having children?

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Did you talk about breast or bottle feeding, sleep issues, weaning theories, potty training, discipline strategies, etc before you had child(ren), do you discuss matters as they arise, or do you just go with 'the flow'?
 
During pregnancy, we kind of joked about everything. Once our daughter was here we discussed it as it came up. I think if we would of laid a plan out- it would of changed because not everything goes as we plan :)

A side note about sleeping issues- my bf and I started alternating nights when my daughter was about 2 months old. That way one of us gets a good night sleep every other night. We are still doing that and our daughter is 15 months old. :)
 
Yes,so that in the future we will not come across any problem before having children.
 
My husband and I were very young (unplanned) parents, so we didn't discuss parenting issues beforehand. Fortunately, our son was a very "easy" baby and my husband and I are very much on the same wavelength.

Since then, yes, we discuss issues as they arise. If there is a discipline issue, we will usually send children from the room while we discuss it. We believe it is very important to be on the same page of music. We now have three children. Our biological son, and two children from intercountry adoption (as school age children, not babies). We have had to adjust, amend and alter our parenting styles to fit the children and the situation.

Parenting is NOT a "one size fits all" sort of thing.
 
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