Thank you to Jessica from Paulsbride, for this guest post.

The other night, just before it was time to get our two boys – Judah 2.5 and Wesley 1.5- ready for bed, Judah asked me if he could have a glass of milk. Typically we don’t give them liquids so close to bedtime as they both have the ability of soaking through their diaper, pajamas and all their bedding if they are given anything too close to bedtime. As I was about to deny his request my husband Paul spoke up and said “Why don’t we give them some milk, turn out all the lights and then sit in front of the fireplace together and watch the fire?”

Dad’s Way is different than Mom’s–and that’s OK!

While on that thought I suddenly, and vividly, remember many moments through the boys infancy where Paul would step in to “help” when they were overtired, upset, hungry – he had very different ideas on how things should be done with the boys and by the grace of God I bit my tongue and let him be involved and carry out his own ideas. It’s not that his ideas were bad ideas they were just entirely different than how I, as a mother, would do things. Even the way he played was completely different and not how I thought a baby should be played with.

Let your Husband Parent His Way

My purpose in sharing this is twofold – first to encourage mothers and wives to fully embrace their husbands opinions and thoughts on how things should be done in all areas of the home, but specifically with the children – even if it is totally not how you would do it. The children – and you! – will be enormously blessed with his involvement.