My boyfriend, Lee, and I spend way too much time discussing parental issues, challenges with children and occasionally I have to gear Lee back into the present day and remind him to focus on the future. Upon a discussion over the weekend Lee mentioned something about his childhood and then we went on to discuss how to work with figuring out how to help him co-parent more positively. Not an easy task by the way. While I was listening to Lee speak, one thing popped into my head, he has spent more time trying to give his kids a friendship bond and protect them from real consequences as a way to have something that he didn’t feel he had as a child. That is when I went “ding ding ding” …