Katharine McPhee, 39, and David Foster, 74, recently sat down for an interview with People where they opened up about their different styles of parenting, saying they sometimes disagree due to their age gap. The pair tied the knot in 2019 and share a two-year-old son, Rennie where they sometimes don’t see eye-to-eye when it comes to raising him. “I want to start disciplining [Rennie] and Kat’s not really down with that,” Foster said during a joint interview with McPhee. “No, that’s not true,” said McPhee. “I just want to discipline in my own way.” “There’s the more old-fashioned way of disciplining which involves time-outs and things like that,” the “American Idol” alum explained. “My take is that you can have more mindful parenting opposed to just assuming that a two or three-year-old can have time alone to reflect on what they’ve done poorly.” She continued by saying, “I think the more new way of parenting is understanding that with a child, there’s only so much that they can intellectually understand. Saying ‘That was really bad, that was really, really bad,’ gets into a shaming thing. I think disciplining is something that happens over time.”

Rennie is Foster’s sixth child while being the first for McPhee. Foster, who was previously married four times, is the father to daughters Alison, 53, Amy, 50, Sara, 42, Erin, 41 and Jordan, 37. “David’s more results-based. He’s like, ‘He can’t just walk by and swat people’,” McPhee explained. “Of course not. But he’s two and a half, and he’s learning those things.” She added, “It’s just a different approach. I think his era of parenting is different than mine.” The pair told People that they agree to disagree over their different parenting styles, but never argue over it. McPhee shared her outlook on parenting with an example of how children learn boundaries. “They learn how to have personal space and all those things over time,” she said. “They have to have experiences where they have negative reactions from people more than just their parents, from teachers and fellow students. They get to experience it with life. So we’ll just wait. Talk to us when he’s three.”