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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hate to say this, but they might be acting like this because you don’t know how to relate to them. You sound like you’re trying hard, but as you said, you don’t have a child that age  so you might be putting off negative vibes. Tweens are tricky. They want to be treated like adults but they act like 5 year olds. As your own child grows up, you’ll know how to correctly negotiate that and make it work. But treating them like children will make things worse. [/quote]

Op here. They do wear me down big time. They all talk at once and over each other and they fight ferociously with each other and I am not comfortable being the disciplinarian-we just don’t know each other well enough and I don’t feel like it’s my place.

I’d much prefer to have them one on one or even 2/3 but my brother won’t even consider that, so it’s all or nothing. I’ve tried to eek out some one on one time with each of them this trip but with my own kids that’s been hard to do, though I’ve managed about an hour alone with each of them.[/quote]

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