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Originally Posted by fotze
It is a fine line of making the baby 'adapt to your life'. The travelling thing is one thing, but we have friends whose kids stay up as late as they do, going to the same social events to 1 am, eat at non-structured times like a single person would. Absolute nightmare kids. They are the type of people who came from big families and mayhem at home is par for the course.
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Yeah i edited in that part. I highly recommend a structured schedule. It helps. i know most everyone we know wonders how we can possibly send our kids to bed when we do (7ish for the 4 year old, near 6 year old is about a half hour later). The answer is simple. My kids do actually sleep for 10-11 hours at night so they clearly need it if it is available to them and because of that they don't just collapse randomly somewhere. They also tend to be much better behaved in public because a rested kid is a kid that listens (also a kid that learns better).
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But at the same time, don't judge how others go about raising the kids, no matter how much you want to. It all probably doesn't make as much of a difference as we think.
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Oops I judged! Ah well I'm human. I just don't understand some parents.