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[quote=Anonymous]This thread is reminding me what a broad range of parenting attitude there are and how bizarre some of them seem to me (and I"m sure mine seem weird to others). Like some of these comments feel like they are from another time or written from aliens, I just can't make sense of them.

There is nothing wrong with a 4 yr old running around a private home in underwear or a diaper/pull-up. This seems extremely normal to me. Like others, I wouldn't vacations with others who might find that weird.

Nothing wrong with a 4.5 yr old in pull-ups. It's not uncommon and it's also no one's business but his and his parents. The appropriate response from anyone else is: nothing.

If I were the older girl's parent I would absolutely have told her it's not appropriate to comment on something like that in general, and also reminded her that teasing younger kids is cruel -- older kids have a special kind of power over younger kids and I teach my kids to take that seriously and not to abuse it.

But since the girl's mother said nothing, I would have just focused on my kid and made sure he wasn't upset by what the girl had said, and make sure he knew that there's nothing shameful or embarrassing about needing to wear pull-ups at night until his body is ready to get rid of them.

I'd probably still vacation with this family if everything else was good and not think that hard about this incident, unless it was something that was repeated or part of a bigger pattern of the other family's kids teasing or criticizing my kid, because that would not be okay with me.[/quote]

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