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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with saying "no" a lot more often. Maybe spending the weekend "running to sport game for kids" is leading to crankiness? Kids need downtime just like adults do. Why not cut back on over-scheduling every weekend and teach your children how to hang out, and relax? There's joy in not having to be anywhere on a weekend. Your daughter might be trying to tell you she's over-scheduled.[/quote] We say no quite a bit. She have 4 days a week of no activities and we just come home. Most weekends are just 1 sports game and then doing chores at home. This party was pretty extraordinary, but we have felt she takes things for granted for a while now. We say no to sleepovers, we don't allow play dates on school, we enforce math reading and music practice everyday. Compared to other parents we live a pretty circumscribed life for our kids (if anything we worry she feels left out from her 4th grade social circle because we say no so much)[/quote]
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