Who's the Best Disciplinarian, Mom or Dad?

Philippines
May 7, 2007 2:17am CST
In disciplining kids, who do you think is the best? Is it our mother or our father?
6 responses
• United States
7 May 07
I think mothers are the best parents because fathers i think feel that they have to do nothing to raise their children . They the kids run around out of order and then when you have them they expect the same thing. There is nothing more annoying than an unruly child. Then the fathers want to step in when the children start to back talk and by that time their already teenagers then. Thats too late to discipline then,and thats whats wrong now these children think they can do whatever they want and time they get in trouble with the law they come calling looking for handouts. My grandmother is still doing that with my uncles, bailing them out of jail and their in their forties it's crazy.
@rapolu_cs (1184)
• India
7 May 07
Best disciplinre can be any of the parent ot is the question whoi is ths best both are best at their positions as i take care of my child totally being a housewife and my hubby gets a mere time toi spend with the kid and he always wants to spend a galla time with him and he never care for all these thinks as iam there,so it depends on the situation and the posibility of ones caring and in case of mine my mom is my dicipliner and my father used to support her and help her,so i think both the parents are best diciplinarians.
• India
7 May 07
I think father is the most discilinarian. Mom has always soft corner for child so sometime she forgives. Dad has not such thing mostly. Most of the time he teaches good disciplines. Sometime to be strict is essential for a child. Child has not much sense of dividing right or wrong acts so father plays a major role in teaching. Mother always keeps soft corner for her child, so not too much expectation on discipline side.
@muscare (3068)
• Australia
7 May 07
Well, speaking as a parent, I let my wife do a lot of the disciplining, but if what she is saying is having no effect, then I will say something, and that usually makes my 4yr old take notice! We don't smack, telling our son what is right or wrong has a much better effect.
@cherylmae (173)
• Philippines
7 May 07
my dad. Because my dad rarely talks or scold us.. But when he's angry, the whole world shakes.. My mom is just a nagger, but i'm more afraid to my dad than to my mom
@jeanbug23 (992)
• Philippines
7 May 07
I'm also a parent to daughters aged 15 and 6 years old. Since I am the full time housewife, I am with the kids most of the time. Their father also is the one who sets up the rules in the house, and I am the one who is in charge to award or punish who is right or wrong.