Parenting Styles

Well we had a plan like we are going to do this and not do that but honestly it all went out the window as soon as he was born. First time parents and we r just doing what works for our son and us. Despite all the advice lol

We didn’t really discuss it. I had my own personal ideas of what kind of parent I’d be, but you can’t even begin to guess your true parenting style until your baby is here in my opinion- at least for me it was totally different than I thought

I thought I'd be super strict as I'm a complete control freak, but with us having a super easy baby we just were both laid back and got to enjoy being parents cause we really just went with the flow. The baby and my OH are the only people I'm not a control freak with for some reason 😂

We talked about parenting and kids while we were dating. We had in depth conversations to make sure we were on the same page since starting a family was important to both of us. We agreed on everything. The one thing we never thought to discuss was potty training. My husband wanted to wait and pretty much hoped that our oldest would just decide to start using the potty on his own. 🤦🏼‍♀️ I read the Oh Crap! Potty Training book and decided we needed to potty train. He didn’t like that this method says to have you child run around the house bare bottomed the first couple days. I told hubby to research other methods, pick one he liked, and get me the book to read. If he didn’t want to research a different method and didn’t want to help, then he could stay out of the way. He chose to stay out of my way and our son was regularly using the potty after just a few days. Hubby agreed that the method I used worked and that he’d help in the future.

We had a conversation when we found out we were having our first. More or less we're on the same page, I'm more strict than my husband and we've pretty much stayed true to our original plan. You don't know what your child is going to be like so your plan has to accommodate them.