Parenting Wes was a whole lot easier when it was just me. No one was questioning me. No one was making me second guess my discipline. No one was probing me on the why’s of my decisions. I would just make my parental rulings and move on. B was the same way. He wasn’t used to anyone inquiring about his parental verdicts. He wasn’t used to anyone exploring other options to handle discipline encounters. He was used to supervising things all on his own. Now here we are, in this new thing we call a blended family. And we have slowly entered into the phase of disciplining each other’s kids and that is one of the hardest parts of the blend. Wow. Two imperfect parents, three imperfect kids, all trying to mesh together under two very different parenting styles. First: The conflict. B and I have very different personalities, so the way we discipline our children is very different. I tend to be the person who responds immediately. I’m a t...