7 PARENTING BOUNDARIES I SWEAR BY 👀✨

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Araybia Bowen

I use these same boundaries with mine. they are 1,6,9, and 13.

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Bgarnett

Sounds like you are going to creat mature and thoughtful individuals (hopefully) also your house is beautiful

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