David Foster, Katharine McPhee Marriage in Trouble Due to Age Gap? 'His Era is Different From Mine!'

There are moments when Katharine McPhee and her husband David Foster disagree on how to raise their two-year-old son Rennie.

The 74-year-old music business titan and the 39-year-old former American Idol contestant-who recently re-released a Christmas album-have different opinions about how to discipline their child.

"I want to start disciplining [Rennie] and Kat's not really down with that,' Foster told People.

This is not exactly the case though, McPhee said. She wants to discipline their child, but in a different way. She chucks it to their own generation gap.

The songstress clarified, "No, that's not true. I just want to discipline in my own way. It's just a different approach. I think his era of parenting is different than mine."

It seems McPhee understands where Foster is coming from though, although she's not saying he's more right or she's the correct one, either.

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"There's the more old-fashioned way of disciplining which involves time-outs and things like that," she said.

She 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."

The singer-songwriter added, "I think the more new way of parenting is understanding that with a child, there's only so much that they can intellectually understand."

McPhee expounded, "Saying "That was really bad, that was really, really bad," gets into a shaming thing. I think disciplining is something that happens over time."

She then said her husband, whom she got married to back in 2019, with people talking negative about their age gap at first, is "more results-based. He's like, "He can't just walk by and swat people."'

"Of course not. But he's two and a half and he's learning those things," she added.

But despite their massive difference in seeing things when it comes to disciplining their child, Katharine said they "don't have arguments about it."

In addition, working on music is a topic that the two are always in agreement about. McPhee remains grateful that her husband has so much experience and can teach her a lot of things. This is one positive aspect about their generation gap.

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