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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's more difficult when you DO care and are opposed to the activity.  We just shared a beach house with another family that does donuts and sugar cereals for breakfast every single morning and dessert with every meal, things we don't do.  One day the other kids had two ice creams 3x.  I said no the first time and yes the second, even though I really didn't want them eating that much crap.  Being around other families with different rules is always a challenge.
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OP here,

It’s not that I don’t care at all about those things.  It’s just that in those particular circumstances (e.g. a popsicle when playing outside on a hot day) I would have said yes if the other mother had.

But I also want to respect her parenting.  If saying no was important to me, I would have just said it, but since it wasn’t I just waited for her to talk first.  One thing I wonder is whether it would make sense for me to just say no, because the other kid might accept it?

Ironically I think the other mom thinks that she says no a lot, and I am the permissive one, but I actually think that I end up on no more.  [/quote]

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