The only time I really have a difference of opinion with My wife is over the upbringing and in particular discipline of our children. Thai women are atrocious disciplinarians, I see it all around in the village we live in. Fat kids who are given unlimited pocket money to spend on sweets and crap, of course this happens in the West as well but mainly in the trailer park environment, here its the opposite, parents who have the education to know better, spoil the kids rotten. ther are kids around here at 6 years old weighing in at 35 Kgs, and not unusually so.
An incident this morning made me bloody mad, last day of summer school so the kids are asked to bring something, on the way to school I buy some fruit and a small packet of sponge cake but my daughter didn't want that, she wanted sweets.
So I said, "don't want this so you get nothing" get home and get a bolllicking, if she wanted sweets, why didn't you let her buy them? WTF is this, the kid makes demands and you HAVE to indulge them? fvck that !
I'm told " now our daughter will be embarrassed in front of her class, your a bad Father"
Sorry wifey, but our children are not going to be brought up as spoilt little buggers who don't know what discipline and self control is.
Even now, the children totally ignore Mum when they want to, so usually it goes like this . "Peter tell them to have a shower, Peter, tell them to go to bed" etc.