Partnership Parenting: How Men and Women Parent Differently--and How It Can Help Your Kids and Your Marriage Book

Foreword ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction xiii

Part 1

1 Becoming Parents Together: Life B.C. (before Children) and A.C. (after Children) 3

2 Cuddling vs. the Football Hold: Why Parenting Differences Are Not Deficiencies 15

3 Building a Partnership That Works: The Relationship Is the Solution, Not the Problem 35

4 Managing Conflict and Fighting Fair: The Dynamics of Healthy Disagreement 49

5 Valuing Your Spouse's Contribution: So Glad I Chose You 65

6 Assumptions and Actions: What Grown-ups Do and Don't Know About Raising Kids 79

Part 2

7 Discipline: "Wait'til Your Father Gets Home!" 99

8 Care and Feeding: Keeping Your Child Healthy in Body and Mind 115

9 Co-parenting and Sleeping Children: Learning to Be on One's Own 133

10 Safety: From Within and Without 151

11 Education: The Co-parenting Foundation to Lifelong Learning 169

12 Epilogue: For Divorce Prevention: Keeping the Parenting Partnership First So It Lasts 191

Appendix A Ideas About Parenting 199

Appendix B Parental Profile Answers 205

Notes 207

Index 213