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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]No.  He is not responsible for my feelings.  I will focus on his behavior, and tell him when things are not okay or not acceptable, but I'm not going to make a child responsible for an adult's feelings.[/b] [/quote]

This.  [/quote]

Huh.  That's interesting.  I will say that when there is an insult - like "this dinner is yucky."  I say, Larla, it hurts my feelings when you say mean things about the food I make.  You don't have to eat it, but please be nice.  '  Literally within a day the negative comments about the food stopped.  I think my 4 year old is old enough to know why things aren't acceptable.  You're not supposed to be rude because you don't want to hurt other people's feelings, right?  Otherwise it's just an arbitrary set of rules.[/quote]

Larla, you're being rude and ungrateful. I spent a lot of time and effort to put this food on the table.  Tomorrow you're responsible for making dinner for the family.

And let her go to bed hungry.

You don't ask to "please don't hurt feelings" - she is supposed to respect her parents and act like it.[/quote]

Thanks for the reply.  I don't think I'd make a 4 year old responsible for making dinner (cooking is not a punishment, and besides, she'd probably just serve ice cream and jelly beans anyway...)[/quote]

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