Parents must be a united front for the kids. This is crucial for parents to understand but also, well, super difficult in practice. Why? Because we each have our own opinions and values that butt up against our parenting approaches. But the parenting tactic schism is not necessarily the problem. The problem is that the imbalance in, say, discipline tactics opens up the possibility of kid-facing conflict to come between the two of you. So how do you avoid it? Here’s what to know.