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My Husband Thinks He Has the Perfect “Solution” for Our Twins’ Request. It’ll Create Chaos in Our Home.

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When one kid has something, the other is guaranteed to want it, writes Care and Feeding .

Your husband and his wife are at odds over whether to buy a Nintendo Switch 2 for their kids' birthday.

This is a 7-year-old ’s birthday present you’re talking about, not a college graduation, a wedding or even a quinceañera/o.

Dear Care and Feeding: Give your brother-in-law an ultimatum to fess up or I’m going to tell my sister myself.

Being the messenger of this sort of news rarely works out well for anyone involved.

You know only what you saw, you don’t know what your sister knows or doesn't know.

Parents who can’t get on the same page have to do that about each other’s households.

It would be excellent if you two could reach a compromise between your strict, set limits and his anything-goes approach.

Do not demonize his father (“When you're at home with me, you're doing things the right way; when you're with your dad, all hell breaks loose”.

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