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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]

Not the PP you were responding to.  But to put it gently, parents like you are actually the problem.  I certainly don't have "perfect little Stepford children".  What I do have is five children who know how to behave inside a home, ours or someone else's.  I never moved a thing.  We had/still have nice furniture.  Our home never looked like a daycare center with toys in every room and knick knacks out of site.  We taught our kids what they could and could not touch.  The result?  When we went to visit grandparents or friends without kids, I didn't have to worry about them breaking anything.  They knew better.

Not to suggest we haven't had a few accidents through the years.  But they certainly knew better than to jump on furniture or beds, write on walls, touch things that they weren't supposed to touch, and destroy the house.  Unless you have a special needs child, you have a big problem if your kid is trying to write on the wall after about 2.

It's o.k. to teach your kids that some things are off limits and that the house is not their personal playground.[/quote]

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