it's all in what works for your family

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it's all in what works for your family
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Sat, 07-18-2009 - 6:38pm

I don't believe that children that have parents that work outside of the house are at a disadvantage... I also don't believe that children that have a parent that stays at home somehow benifit.

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Registered: 04-14-2003
Fri, 08-28-2009 - 12:55pm

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i thought i had a pretty good handle on this thread, and i don't reacall anyone claiming this. who ever said such a thing?

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Fri, 08-28-2009 - 12:56pm
You keep saying you don't separate out the 2-bite rule from other rules in your house. To me that means you apply the same consequence. If that's not the case, what do you mean when you say you don't separate it out? What is the consequence for not following these house rules?
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Registered: 03-06-2009
Fri, 08-28-2009 - 1:00pm

maybe... if one person tells her her breath is bad (which I tell her is

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Fri, 08-28-2009 - 1:00pm

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Since I have clearly stated that I have two different children (one picky and one not) I would that that would be clear....further since I haven't stated ever that I believe all children to be exactly alike in all manners, again I would thank that was perfectly crystal clear.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 08-22-2009
Fri, 08-28-2009 - 1:02pm
If it gets to that point the only way to force them is to take them to school and stay with them all day to make sure they do not leave.
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Fri, 08-28-2009 - 1:04pm

We've had the stage with both of our boys in early puberty (11-12 or so) where they didn't see the point of bathing as often as we thought desirable. They had stinky feet and sometimes stinky bodies. Every time I told the kid it was time for a shower or to wash his hair, there would be protests about how he just washed his hair yesterday, it was stupid to bathe every day, blabitty blabbity blab. I always pushed it because my nose was offended by body odor. I could tell them a hundred fifty times they stank with no effect on their psyches whatsoever. But all it took was one other teenager, one time, to say something along the lines of "Hey, dude, don't you know about deodorant?" and all of a sudden there was a line at the shower.

Sometimes peer pressure is a really good thing.

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Fri, 08-28-2009 - 1:04pm

<<I'm still confused about how you would make your kid take two bites of something if he adamantly refused. >>


Again, I would remind them of the rule a couple of times

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 01-08-2009
Fri, 08-28-2009 - 1:06pm
You have the rule.
Your kids follow the rule.
It works in your family.
You never claimed it would work for every family.
If it didn't work in your family, you'd probably have come up with something else that did.
End of story.
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Registered: 04-14-2003
Fri, 08-28-2009 - 1:08pm

wasn't it that she was distressed by your calling it the two-bite rule and enforcing the "two" part? i know you will correct me if i'm confusing you with someone else, but didn't you say that you

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Registered: 03-06-2009
Fri, 08-28-2009 - 1:09pm

they had this rule at daycare.

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