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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Been there, including the counseling.  Honestly, in 20/20 hindsight, kids do best with a minimum of rules, the important ones only (safety, homework before playtime, please and thank you) and leave the rest to inspiration and examples you set.  I obsessed about limiting screen time, eating healthy, and DH obsessed about cleanliness and behavior.  Kids were nervous wrecks and still are as young adults.  My advice: chill out and enjoy life, that's the best thing you can do for your kids.[/quote]

OP here. Thanks. I definitely have had to relax my ideas about how things should be, in a lot of ways. For example, kids are up until 930, sometimes 10...that's something I never thought I would be able to adjust to, but I did. Also, one of our kids will not eat a single vegetable. Not a single one. I'm trying not to worry about that, either. But sometimes the signals I get from others show me that these things are problems. For example, our pediatrician was very concerned when I had to explain that one of our kids refuses to eat vegetables. And when we visit grandparents, I can tell that they're shocked when the kids are still up at 930, 10. [/quote]

Mine are up later.  Not a big deal and not all kids need huge amounts of sleep.  With food, keep trying but that's not Dad's fault any more than yours.  Some kids are picky eaters.  If they eat fruit, I wouldn't worry about veggies as much.[/quote]

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