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I asked my mom the other week if my siblings or I ever "wrecked" furniture. The answer was "no". Boundaries, manners and discipline works just fine. So does teaching kids that furniture isn't a toy. [/quote]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Glad your perfect little Stepford children can do this.

Seriously - set boundaries?  Discipline?  Gee, why didn't I think of that?   :roll:  :roll:  :roll:  :roll:  :roll: [/quote]

I'm not the poster you ungraciously mock and I, too, think it is important to teach kids how to behave. Everyone hated having one of my sister's kids over because she had shabby furniture in her home and only ate at fast food places and allowed her kids to behave as they pleased pretty much all the time. I don't think that one's home has to be a total museum with rooms totally off-limits, but I do think kids need to learn how to behave in different contexts. My kids understood they could roughhouse in the basement but they needed to be careful of the furniture in other rooms. Art projects happened in the basement or at the kitchen table or island. They also learned at a very young age how to handle an airline flight, how to comport themselves in restaurants and how not to yell at the tops of their lungs in grocery stores. Consequently they were always welcomed visitors.[/quote]

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