PARENTS: Do you and partner do good cop/bad cop with kids?

[yurbud]

[Nicole]

1. Other: We were never cops

We were zoo keepers. :rofl:

[LeftyMom]

2. I'm a single parent. My personalities take turns.

:P

[yurbud]

3. I thought of that. "Wait till your father gets home" takes on a creepier meaning

[MissMillie]

10. single parent here too... I just try to be consistent

inconsistency is a bad policy when it comes to raising kids. They need to know what the rules are and that there will be consistently defined consequences if they break them.

[Fleshdancer]

4. we switch it up to keep her on her toes

It's rare to have to play bad cop with our daughter though. She's an easy going fun kid. She's only 6 yrs old though so I expect this to change at any time. ;)

[youthere]

8. Wait until she's 12 and hormonal.

They become decidedly less easy going, and much MUCH less fun.:rofl:

[ScreamingMeemie]

5. Most days I wake up not even knowing what my name is so I can't

answer that. :hi:

[seemunkee]

6. Not on purpose

I'm generally more lenient except when it comes to school/education.

[trof]

7. United front most important.

Kids learn 'divide and conquer' early on.

[youthere]

9. We play mediocre psychologist/batshit crazy insurance claims investigator with ours.

It keeps things more interesting as the kids never know what the hell is going on.

[yurbud]

11. St. Francis and Torquemada

[bleedingheart]

15. I can truly appreciate that method..

I find that if you insert enough "crazy parent" into your parenting style, you kids will respect you more.

[youthere]

17. Exactly..

we try to keep our 'overreactions' limited to the inane and entertaining, and reserve the "relaxed-not-the-least-bit-surprised-totally-expected-it" reactions for the big stuff. We don't always succeed, but we do notice that our kids tell us everything.
"Mom...I was the second shooter on the grassy knoll...that's not a problem is it?"

They think we're nuts, and that's the way we like it.

[regularguy]

12. We do:

consistently-annoyed cop / usually-mellow-with-the-occasional-psychotic-explosion cop. Works about as well as one might expect. :)

[RedStateShame]

13. Wasn't that the interrogation method used on "Homicide: Life on the Streets?"

That's the kind of tactic I'd like to take if I were a parent, especially if I get to be Pemberton, Andre Braugher's character. And that is one of many reasons I will never be a parent.

[bleedingheart]

14. No we prefer the Stalinist Gulag method

in which we confine them to their rooms for a period of time, take away the toys they like and make them do household chores like clean toilets while supervising them....if we are being really mean we break out a bottle of wine and supervise them to make ourselves feel more powerful.....

:evilgrin:

[THUNDER HANDS]

16. my girlfriend is soooo going to be the bad cop

She's the perfect bad cop.

I'd be a great good cop.

Women are better for the bad cop role anyway. Your mom angry is much more frightening than your dad angry.

[yurbud]

18. whenever I go out with a crazy abusive chick, I comfort myself by thinking if we have kids...

I'll be the good cop.