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[quote=Anonymous]I guess if you plan on more kids, it might make sense to wait. You might get an "artist" like PP's 7 year old who still draws on walls.

Our house is furnished now exactly the same as the way we did it up when we bought it 5 years before our first child. (Plus the little ikea table and a toy kitchen, of course!) And everything looks very nice. Yes, our kids are relatively obedient. But we've also been really consistent about a few (deliberately few) furniture-saving rules. We do not allow food outside of the dining room. Kids have never gotten a sticker or a pen without getting a reminder that it's "only for paper". There's been a little couch jumping, but good-quality furniture can take it.

What's funny is how kids seem to get rules. My in-laws are so lax with my kids... and the only place the kids misbehave in this regard is at their grandparents' house. One kid doodled all over the in-laws' fridge with a marker, long after she was old enough to know better. I was utterly shocked, because she had never EVER done anything even remotely like that at home. I didn't even know she was capable of that kind of idea. [/quote]

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