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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous](Basically I subscribe to the philosophy that 80-90% of kids end up "good kids" by 5 or 6, as long as you do a halfway decent job of at least attempting love and discipline. So I find it questionable when people claim "the key" to overcoming typical 2-3-4-year-old behavioral issues is to do X. The main key, for most (not all) kids, seems to be growing out of it.)[/quote]

+1.  We used to take our son out a ton when he was an infant, toddler and little kid because he was always well behaved in restaurants. It wasn't because of anything we did. We continued to take him because he was well behaved. If he had been badly behaved we would have stopped.  At some point, before, say age 20, i would expect he could go to a restaurant without eating like a baboon. Regardless of how much he went as a 3 year old.

Oh, and our son is a disaster in other settings, like parties. No amount of exposing him to birthday parties makes him better behaved. And yes, we skip birthday parties all the time because they are such disasters.  All that said, i expect by age 20, he can go to parties without screaming about what piece of cake he wants.

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