Why Each Of My Boys Grows Up With A Different Set of Rules

I love it when I hear “You would have freaked out if I did that bad of a job on the bathroom! You would have made me go back in there and clean the whole thing all over again!”

Yes, yes I would have.

I don’t exactly remember all the ins and outs of parenting my oldest two, but I do know that I raise each of my boys by a somewhat different – but similar – set of rules.

There is four years between my 18-year-old and my 14-year-old. And those years make a BIG difference – because I’ve changed ov...