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Please humor me, and an honest question. And please be honest. Do you have kids? How many?

• lintiness 10y ago
  my dad has lots of advice for me and my wife about the correct parenting of our kids (his grandkids). he usually gives it to us over the hour dinner we eat with him once a week.
• marklgr 10y ago
  One kid, seven. Got three brothers (the eldest got four kids). Most of my friends got kids too, some of them "difficult". For what it's worth, I was a pretty difficult child too.
• coryfklein 10y ago
  I have three boys, ages 10m, 2.5y, and 4.5y. I can confirm that in my case (at least for the two older boys), pretty much all the advice in the article is correct. As I read, I realized that I have been occasioning upon the recommended parenting strategies almost by happenstance. It's neat to see those specific strategies called out though - I can immediately think back to times when I tried that and realize, "ohhh, so that's why it worked so well." Should help me focus more on those strategies.
  • virgilp 10y ago
    I have three girls. I swear to God, the first two were fairly difficult with getting them to eat healthy, each in their own way - but hey, we are smart & informed, we handled them! The third one broke us. We got to the point where both me & my wife were begging her, "come on, eat this, it has lots of chocolate!" All these kind of advice works... until it doesn't. Yes, many parents don't know how to handle their kids. It's also often genuinely hard - I learned to not judge people for "not doing the right thing", without knowing the full story.