DOTC: Teaching Birthing Classes

I talked (to expectant parents) about the importance of thinking about what style of discipline you both were comfortable with and the fact that unless we make a conscious decision to change it, people naturally parent in the way they were parented themselves. I told them why it’s important to try and decide together what are going to be your own boundaries before you need them. And that parenting is a constant re-adjustment of those boundaries based on age and maturation levels. And above all else—the dance lessons, the top pre-school, any material gifts you can name, the absolute best gift you can give your children is a strong, stable, and lasting marriage/ Dan of the County . More here

Question: What advice would you give a young couple about to have its first baby?