Parenting the Husband is one of many TV Tropes used in BT Productions.
Basic Info[]
This is where in a married couple, the husband is child-like and the wife is like a parent to him except that she can quite easily provide him sex. Sometimes, the wife may talk about feeling like she really does have one more child than the number of children they have, and guess who the extra is? Ironically, her job of child care may be made easier by the husband being able to connect to their children more effectively. Sometimes, this is part of a Closer to Earth setup, with a Bumbling Dad. He may also be a Henpecked Husband, or he may just have a penchant for causing wacky hijinks that his wife must resolve. Sometimes, the husband is perfectly angelic or a hard worker, or a mixture of the two, and the wife is simply motherly with no shallow motives.
Examples[]
- "Mommy" treats Stavros Hodges as a kid. The justification used is that Stavros acts childish. At least they actually "did it" and conceived a child as a result.