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[quote=Anonymous]Not sure if I’m going against the grain in general but definitely in DC.

I don’t ban TV.  We don’t do it during the week unless one of us is sick because it’s a time suck and we stay busy.  But I don’t really have a cap during weekends.  Some days were all tired and we watch movies all day.  We regularly have movie nights on Friday nights.  I’ve yet to see my kids lose IQ points over it.  We do tend to not do television programming because I have commercials.  Mostly Netflix shows and DVDs.

Don’t care how my kids dress once they can dress themselves.  Usually wear mismatched Target/Old Navy outfits.

I love staying at home and hated working.  I enjoyed the day to day with the kids and although the lack of break was exhausting, I much prefer it to spending 40 hours a week with people I don’t like making barely enough money to cover childcare costs.

We coslept.  Which is a DC no-no.  Wouldn’t have done this if I had to be up early for work.  It just worked out.

We never did a curriculum and my kids didn’t/don’t start school till age 5.  Never did pre-k (out of budget on one income).  Prefer for my kids to learn through play/outings versus a curriculum.  Didn’t sweat memorizing colors, letters, shapes, alphabet, numbers and wouldn’t you know they picked it all up before Kindergarten on their own.

Basically just low key parenting.  I don’t stress too much.  In DC I’m a lazy mom.  Oh well, irs the Midwest in me.[/quote]

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