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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Been there, including the counseling.  Honestly, in 20/20 hindsight, kids do best with a minimum of rules, the important ones only (safety, homework before playtime, please and thank you) and leave the rest to inspiration and examples you set.  I obsessed about limiting screen time, eating healthy, and DH obsessed about cleanliness and behavior.  Kids were nervous wrecks and still are as young adults.  My advice: chill out and enjoy life, that's the best thing you can do for your kids.[/quote]

OP here. Thanks. I definitely have had to relax my ideas about how things should be, in a lot of ways. For example, kids are up until 930, sometimes 10...that's something I never thought I would be able to adjust to, but I did. Also, one of our kids will not eat a single vegetable. Not a single one. I'm trying not to worry about that, either. But sometimes the signals I get from others show me that these things are problems. For example, our pediatrician was very concerned when I had to explain that one of our kids refuses to eat vegetables. And when we visit grandparents, I can tell that they're shocked when the kids are still up at 930, 10. [/quote]

Please do not worry what the grandparents think...they're going to think something about everything anyway.

And I suspect your kid isn't the only one to not eat vegetables.  My brother and I used to pretend to eat them, then spit them out in a napkin.  My DS will eat a vegetable now and then....with enough ranch dressing on them to drown a horse.  Not sure that's healthy![/quote]

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