I don't know if there are any Foster Parents or Ex-Foster Parents on here, but I have a question. When my wife and I first got married we became pregnant after a couple years but miscarried. It was 15 years before we were able to have a child of our own...In the times in between we raised a cousin from my wifes side of the family, my 2 children off and on from a previous relationship, and became Foster Parents and even adopted 3 boys. Now my question is this, I'm trying to find out why my wife isn't as strict or enforcing of the rules with our 2 children as she was with all the other kids that came through our household all those years before? I'm was raised Old School where you lost your front teeth if you disrespected an elder. Not that I would go that route with my kids now....I still think and believe that the way we were raised and brought up was the way to go. Spank that butt when you do wrong, and correct children while they are young before they lose their minds when they get old. Our oldest son NEVER walks in the house, he runs, hops and/or skips everyone all day long, jumping in the furniture, in the closet taking down clothing that I have spent all day washing, drying, ironing and hanging up. He cries when I correct him and runs to her to get the ruling over turned or he will run to granny (great grandma) or grandma (both on her side of the family) to tell what's been said or done to him all with the hopes of getting his way. She looks at me funny when I correct him, like I'm the one that's done something wrong. She says very little about what I do correcting the baby boy, because she started her career when he was in infant and I started staying home. What am I suppose to do? She claims that the other kids were allowed to behave in this manner, knowing full well that they weren't. What's a man suppose to do and how?