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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you won't take meds, would you consider smoking weed?  I'm not kidding.

You are doing all this for your kids to have a perfect childhood, but all your kids are going to remember is how uptight and shrill you were.  I know, because i had that parent. My mother made our peanut butter. It sucked. We weren't allowed to eat anything with artificial flavoring or coloring.  Cake at a birthday party? Nope!  M&Ms? Nope!

I got in trouble all the time for breaking rules. There were too many to keep track of. My sibling and I both live across the country from our mother, see her once a year, and have terrible memories of growing up and being at home.[/quote]

Listen to this person.  This person is your kid speaking to you from the future.

Your kids are not going to thank you later in life for feeding them the hummus with the best oil.  Your kids are going to love the freedom of being away from you so much that they never move back closer after college.

I didn't have the crunchy granola parents, but I did have extremely strict parents will so many rules that they were hard to keep track of and different rules for different kids.  For example, my brother, who was younger, could stay out until midnight but my sister and I had to be in by 10:30 because the chance for rape when up after then.  Soooo then why was he allowed out??!  My younger sister always had to have perfect grades and anything less than 100 was a failure according to my parents.  My brother and I?  We could get Bs and Cs if we wanted.  Why?  My sister took after my dad's side of the family and wasn't as pretty so they told her she needed to be "extra smart to make it in life because she'd never have a man to rely on with her looks."  [/quote]

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