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[quote=Anonymous]I will never forget a trip to the Washington Zoo with my son's kindergarten class.  I watched this boy literally walk across the park benches, stepping over the people sitting on them as his mother followed him around going "Benches are for sitting."  We still joke about this woman.

My problem with a lot of this advice is that I had 3 kids under the age of four and a husband who was deployed a lot.  If I didn't say hurry up we never would have made it to the store before it closed. (This was in Europe where things weren't open 24/7).  I always had trouble with 'remove the tantrumming child from the store and go home and try again another day' advice.  If I did that, we wouldn't have eaten.

It feels like a lot of this advice is written by really wealthy women who either have one child or a lot of childcare help and a lot of resources.  (I.E.  The idea of giving children food choices presupposes that there is enough food around the home for people to have choices which wasn't the case in my husband's immigrant household growing up.)[/quote]

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