Watching my husband parent his two young kids very differently from the way I parented my older two has been both eye-opening and confronting. AdvertisementI know I'm doing more than my husband would, but I can't seem to help myself. But when I watched my husband with his kids, my parenting started to look more and more like hovering. I could have eased up and trusted her to do a bit more herself, as my husband does with his kids. He trusts them to figure things outIt's not that my husband leaves his kids to their own devices.

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