How can a mother be gentle and patient without being lenient and overindulgent? How can she keep her cool when her children are disobedient? On a practical level, what can she do to work at parenting “smarter not harder”?

In this "Part One" of the conversation, Lauren Bassford and Colleen O'Steen join Cindy on her weekly Facebook and YouTube video program Older Women Likewise to discuss how a mother can be gentle and patient without being lenient and overindulgent, how she can keep her cool when her children are disobedient, and on a practical level, what she can do to work at parenting “smarter not harder”.