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lumberjack_jeff

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4. There are fifty million wrong ways to raise kids.

Reply to TheFarS1de (Reply #3)

Tue Jan 19, 2016, 01:05 AM

Jan 2016

It's useful to cut our parents (and ourselves) some slack.

When my kids were little I had very clear ideas about what I wanted them to be. It took a long time to really understand that the only important thing was for them to be happy adults - and that everything else was tactics.

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This OP is for those of us who, for whatever reason, had to father ourselves or [View all] Bonobo Jun 2015 OP

K&R Katashi_itto Nov 2015 #1

I am very fortunate in that regard. lumberjack_jeff Nov 2015 #2

Father of 4 daughters reporting in . TheFarS1de Jan 2016 #3

There are fifty million wrong ways to raise kids. lumberjack_jeff Jan 2016 #4

K&R Katashi_itto Mar 2016 #5

My dad taught me everything I know about being a good man NickB79 Nov 2017 #6

It's frightening how much that works sometimes Blue_Adept Nov 2017 #7

I was about to post the same thing DavidDvorkin Nov 2017 #8