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[quote=Anonymous]You haven't said where your kids fall on this.  Do they want to hang out with their cousins?  If so, I would definitely help make that happen.  Kids will tattle and complain but a lot of times they are still having fun.  But iF they are like "no, please noooooo....we don't want to see uncle joe and his kids!" that's  a different matter.

What you've described could be normal joy behavior or not.  It's hard to tell.  I'd avoid burning bridges though.  Boys are at their worst from about 8 to 14. My 10 year old daughter comes home every day with a laundry list of the disgusting and obnoxious things the boys at school have done.  Girls are at their worst from about 11 to 16.

Agree it may help to break the kids up into different groups.  Ask the 14 year old boy to watch the 3 year old and it may bring out his best side.  Pair your 7 year old up with the 10 year old for a game of  clue, etc.  sounds like it's 5-6 kids together at a time, which is just a lot.

I don't blame parents of 3-4 boys for taking a laissez faire approach--you can't really micromanage them when they outnumber you that way so you need to rely on certain "market corrections."    [/quote]

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