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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My parents, sister's family, and my family are vacationing together -- separate cottages but nearby, see each other for meals, activities during day, etc. This is for my parents' 50th anniv, not a regular thing...

My sister and I have kids same age (8/5). They live 1000 miles away and we see them a few times a year.

Her kids are not allowed to use iPads, are not allowed sweets or ice cream or unhealthy snacks (chips/fruit rollups etc), and are not allowed fast-food.

During this trip, I ran to Target with my kids for pool stuff and stopped at BK. Because I know my sister doesn't allow it, my kids ate in the car on the way home, but I [b]guess my older son ambled in with a bag of fries, his cousin saw it, wanted some, and it caused a blowup.[/b]

I also [b]let my kids zone out with iPads after the pool yesterday before dinnertime[/b]. Her kids aren't allowed to do that, but since mine are, my parents basically begged her to just let everyone watch a movie instead, so that was fine, but I could tell she was mad. It wasn't even intentional, [b]my kids just pulled out their iPads, [/b]she saw it, and began fuming. They aren't even in the same cottage as us!

[b]It has been two days[/b] and already it's awkward.

At lunch my sister took me aside and told me, "out of kindness," how worried she is about my kids -- being allowed to consume junk food and spending so much time on screens. She wanted to get into it from an educational and developmental perspective.

I really just want to be on vacation and not defend my choices to her.

My parents seem more or less oblivious and I do not want to draw them into this, but I am also not going to deny my kids ice cream or not let them mess around on their iPad before dinner because my sister thinks it's not OK.

WWYD!?[/quote]

It’s been 2-3 days of fast food and iPad time?

You really make your iPad kids stop at a 30 minute mark?

Your kids age 5 and 8 have their own personal iPads?

What do your kids eat each day? [/quote]

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