Of course I want them to be on their best behavior all the time but I especially want it when we are around my BIL and SIL. They can be annoying with their comments and act like their own kids are perfect 24/7. 
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Me and my husband! Ha ha ha.
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We don't spank but have very pro-spanking family members. I want her to be a perfect angel around them.
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My family and friends! We spent the holidays in the States and I really hoped DD would behave while visiting friends and family she hasn't seen since she was a baby.
Looking back, I've loosened up a lot. I used to be more concerned about her behavior when she was little. I think that the older DD gets, the more I'm comfortable with her being herself around people. Maybe it's because I now understand how normal it is for kids to misbehave. Or maybe it's because she's getting older and generally more reasonable *knock-on-wood*.
DH has always been the opposite. Since DD was a baby, he always wanted her to be normal around his parents "so they know how sweet (code for cray) she is". Hahah
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I waffle about wanting her to be an angel or to just totally lose her marbles around my mil. On the one hand, my mil believes in very compliant children who shouldn't show emotions and we have a more RIE approach. My daughter was saying she wanted to do X before nap- something that takes less than a minute and mil chastised her and told her she needed to say yes Mommy. My daughter is 2.5, if she will happily take a nap because I let her be in control of a single minute you better believe she can have her minute (and my dd will follow through 95% of the time.) The flip side is my daughter is so well behaved that my mil thinks she can skip naps, go to bed late, skip meals, wait an hour for a snack etc because doing so makes life more convenient for her. My daughter won't melt down in front of her but it sure doesn't mean it never happens! Plus the poor baby has terrible nightmares when she skips nap and goes to bed late.
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Good question. No one I guess. She's 2 and my expectations are pretty realistic. I just want her to be good in restaurants and the grocery store so I can eat and get shopping done.
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I want my kids to be well behaved in public and at school, as much as is appropriate for their young ages.
But our friends and family aren't judgemental at all about kid behavior. These threads always make feel lucky about that.
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Around friends! I don't want one run-in with my tantruming toddler to be the reason somebody's partner puts the kibosh on their family plans.
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No, I have expectations for his behavior but I don't expect him to put on a show for certain people. I might reflexively be more or less disappointed depending on the audience but that is on me to manage. I think that is a crappy expectation to put on a child.
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