Living on both sides of the parenting gap

When my husband and I moved into a working class community in southwestern Ohio, the parenting gap became a daily reality. As young parents ourselves with a three-year-old and seven-month-old, we have a lot in common with many of our neighbors—like the fact that we love our children to death and would do anything to help them succeed.

But there have also been times when we’ve discovered differences in the approaches we take to parenting.