Sometimes in life you need to manipulate your children into doing things or not doing things. Steve talks a little bit about that in today's Daddy Tips.
Today’s first Daddy Tip is to not do something that my wife and I did a lot until we realized how bad it was. Don’t laugh when your toddler talks back to your spouse. Charlotte likes to get in some backtalk from time to time and we used to crack up when she did it because we thought it was cute. But then we started to notice that Charlotte was talking back much more because she thought we enjoyed it. So, now we have to cover our faces and go into the other room to laugh when Charlotte says “whatever mom”.