5 STRICT RULES as a family of 6 part 3

I would consider myself a strict, respectful parent. Here are some things that I do that would probably send other parents into a little bit, even though looking, I could probably qualify as a, in like, the truest form of the word. Kids are 7, 5, 3, and one. I'm a parent, work with parents and teach on this topic all every single day. One, talking to adults in public places. My kids talk and order, speak to the grown-ups there on their own, obviously within reason of their age. My three-year-old is doing this on his own. If we go, want some water, I'll send them to the counter to ask for, a water, please? If we're at the library and they finish their little scavenger hunt, get a sticker. I'm not gonna go over there and be like, hey, he finished, can he have a sticker? I'm gonna have them do it because it gives them confidence, they help practice social skills. Like, this is how kids learn to exist in public. Two, quiet time daily. Number two, quiet, non-negotiable. Okay. The second my kids start dropping, they're still in their room every single day for an hour of quiet time. Is it good to have at least an hour of the day that I can actually rest and do my own thing and like, clock off from being a mom? For them, too. Little kids need time throughout the day. Three, books are a priority daily. No. 3 books. We do reading every single day from the time that my kids are born. It's non-negotiable. And this is not me, like, sitting down and forcing them to read chapters and chapters of books that they hate. Sometimes it's me, sometimes it's them. But we are doing book or literacy time every single day. I think the key to this is that I don't filter what they can go, they can go to the library, they can go to the bookstore and pick literally any book they want, as long as it's not wildly inappropriate for some reason, like above their age. What they read. But they're reading, and they also see me read. So this is, like, they're being modeled this behavior as well as doing it themselves. Four, helmets!!! Number four, helmet. This drives me crazy. My husband is a neuroscientist, so he's pretty into keeping brains healthy, but if my kid is on something that moves, they have a helmet on. If they don't have a helmet on, they've lost their privilege for the day. We're not messing around with brain injuries. The tiniest little fall from a two-year-old on a scooter, like, barely falling, they can crack their head, get a serious life-altering brain injury. I'm not fucking around. Five ???? No hitting in disagreements. Number four is fighting. If my kids are fighting, over a toy, having disagreement, whatever, they're allowed to have disagreements. They are not push, shove each other. I'm not talking play wrestling, because I have four little kids. They're gonna play. I'm talking about, they're not allowed to solve that argument by punching each other in the face. I think that's a ridiculous thing to teach little kids, because no grown-up should be using that strategy. So I don't to do that. Six. Family dinner. Lastly, it's dinner time. We sit down together for dinner every single day. Sometimes my kids only sit at the table maybe 10 minutes. That's developmentally appropriate for a lot of their ages. But every single day, we'll sit down, we'll spend the family time together. It's really important to develop that family culture while they're young, because right now, they're all still home. As they get older, that's gonna happen less often, but we want us to have a close family unit. Okay, so tell me which ones you agree with, don't agree with. What are your thoughts down below?