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[quote=Anonymous]So my sister is a beloved fun aunt to my kids, but one who they know has hard and fast rules at her house, even if they aren’t the same as the rules at home.

Decide what matters the most to you-for instance, the picking up after themselves, and let go on others, such as the using adults phones.

My kids know I won’t buy fruit snacks or crappy sugar cereal but their aunt sticks both just for them. And it’s her house, her rules, so she gets to give them out as she wishes. I don’t interfere or limit. 
On the other hand, they know she’s going to sweep or vacuum the floor probably twice a day and if every last thing they played with isn’t picked up as soon as they are done they’ll get scolded and have to drop everything to clean up when she says so.   At home I don’t mind the clutter of their toys as we go about our day and we clean up at the end of the day all at once, or it’s fine for a project to be left out for a while as they do bits of it over several days on our dining room table.

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