04-10-2008, 12:52 AM
Filed under: 2 years, ToddlerI'm not supposed to write these ParentDish entries with the assumption that you know any of my backstory, including how many kids I have and what we've been doing lately, so I apologize in advance if I run out of creative ways to say, hey, so me, my 2.5-year-old, and my 9-week-old are currently staying with my husband's parents in Oregon while he travels on business, today's entry is going to reference this in some manner.So here we all are staying with family and I fully expected that Riley (the 2-year-old, and are you taking notes because there WILL be a test) would act up a little or maybe a lot, being as how his dad will be gone and we're away from our home environment and Riley tends to get a little obnoxious around the grandparents anyway. And while he's been pretty good overall so far, he's definitely testing some limits. For instance, he's been using the couches here as a launch pad, despite the fact that he's not allowed to jump on the furniture at home.Riley's grandparents don't really mind certain things that we do: for instance, the couch-jumping. So I'm wondering, when you visit other people's homes, do you enforce the same rules? The couch aerobics isn't really a question for me because hello, ANNOYING, and also dangerous, but I'm questioning things like No Juice Cups Allowed In the Carpet Rooms, which is something we do at home but no one minds it here.What do you think? Keep rules for the sake of consistency, or allow flexibility in different situations?Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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