I am completely at a loss for words when it comes to my husbands parenting skills. He insist on being a preacher and being entirely too hard on our daughters. I was raised by an overbearing father and it truly has had some long term effects that at the age of 28 I am still trying to work through. Our 3 daughters are your typical kids, fight just to fight, leave a mess just because they can and so forth. My husband insist on trying to develop some new invention with our kids and preach to them for hours on end whenever they do something that is knowingly wrong. I have talked to him in private and encouraged him to keep it brief and feel free to let me handle the discipline if he seems to be getting a little longwinded. He just tells me to "shut up" and leave him alone. I am at a loss and refuse to let our daughters be raised in the same manner I was, it is too long a process to correct instead of just doing it right the first time. Any advice would be most helpful.<P>------------------<BR>Sincerely, Rosie