Almost all excellent parenting tools - listening, naming and accepting feelings, praising, supporting, acknowledging, thanking, showing affection, smiling and laughing, rewarding, giving positive feedback, sharing, boundary setting, speaking respectfully, and setting limits - are also excellent marriage tools. When you use the same techniques on your partner as you do on your child, you are not "parenting" him or her; you are simply using the tools that build excellent relationships. Parenting tools are, for the most part, just good relationship tools.
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