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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You allowing some soda is an issue.

You need to talk to your husband and find a good compromise.[/quote]

OP here. Do you mean that it's an issue that I don't allow soda more frequently, or it's an issue that I allow it at all?  I think it's fine for them to have soda maybe a few times a month (e.g., at a restaurant, party, etc.), but I don't want to keep soda in the house. And I think that's a reasonable compromise...at least, my pediatrician agreed with that approach.

As for counseling...we have done that maybe 3 or 4 separate times for spurts of various lengths over the years. Sessions went well, with the counselor offering helpful direction/opinions, but it felt like things would maybe improve for a little while, but always return to how they were. Fo example, DH wouldn't intervene when they kids would fight, even when it would get physical, because he thought that they should "fight their own battles." I disagreed, and the counselor did as well, and she explained why. He did better at intervening for a while, but eventually went back to not intervening. I don't know, it just felt like the counseling didn't really result in much improvement, and it was also quite expensive and DH had trouble finding time to leave work each week for appointments...so we always eventually dropped the counseling.[/quote]

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