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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I adore babies. 
I am very judgmental of other people's pushy and entitled kids when they're past 8 y/o or so. The pushback, bargaining, or outright smiling defiance on grownup's rules? Keep that for your own house. That also makes me suspicious of my relationship with the parents - what kind of shit do their parents talk about me at home for the kid to believe they don't need to respect me in mine? [/quote]

The smiling defiance is disturbing but in our house pushback and bargaining aren’t considered disrespectful in our house. DH and I are [b]always amused and sometimes impressed [/b]with the arguments our kids make in favor of their positions, and [b]at times they do persuade us[/b] that they are right. I tell my kids not to do this at friend’s houses and I hope they listen but I can’t be sure they do. 
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We are rarely amused or impressed with a clumsy stranger's creative arguments to obtain permission to basically break shit in our house. 
I appreciate that this is a higher SES family's approach to child-rearing. "Teach your kids to be confident and stand up for themselves; practice negotiating and winning what they want; practice challenging authority with eloquence."  It really does create entitled pushy people, though.[/quote]

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