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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1. How much sugar and artificial dyes are they having?
2. How much screen time are they getting?

I'd cut these both down to zero (allowing for natural sugars) and see where that gets me. Also, I'd let them know starting tomorrow whoever makes the bathroom a mess has to clean it up and is not allowed to do anything else until they do that. Whoever gets to a full week without needing to clean up bathroom mess gets to pick what's for dinner. Enforce the hell out of that.

Any time they make bathroom jokes, they have to stop what they're doing and go to the bathroom. Teach them it's unacceptable to speak this way.

Reverse psychology changing clothes "I bet you can't change into your pjs and put your dirty clothes in the hamper in less than 2 minutes. There's no way you can be that fast. I'll time you - GO!" [/quote]

It's not dyes or anything like that. It's parenting.  OP is a bad one.  You reap what you sow.

Most people don't see the products of their 'labor' until the kid is older (and in therapy), but OP has a unique opportunity to turn things around.

OP, give the kids consequences for their actions. They pee in the bathroom and miss the toilet- they disinfect the bathroom daily for a week.  They pee outside in public, they lose privileges to socialize in public (including sports practices).  They run in the house and have negate house safety rules - give then a long art project to write house rules and hang them somewhere. If your kids don't respect you and that is your fundamental problem, then don't give them anything other than the essentials and ask them 'why should I get you icecream/take you to soccer/host your friend/give you screentime/buy whatever/etc if you don't respect my house and it's rules?' Or 'explain to me why I would want to give you whatever privilege when you behave ungratefully'.  Seriously nip this in the bud quickly.[/quote]

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