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From our parents we take the aspects we want to pass on, and those we don't. We do the same with observations of the parents of our friends when we were younger, our teachers, and yes - god forbid - even that abhorrent TV nanny with the speech impediment. I've learned a lot from my father, much as you've learned a lot from yours. I'm fairly sure that at first sign of any intelligence from your sprogg you won't be firing her off to Mensa so you can boast about it to your friends now, will you. Now shall we lay off each others daddy issues?
Where people find the information that works for them is up to them, and I certainly wouldn't judge someone who gleaned a way of dealing peacefully with child tantrums from a book instead of smacking their child the way they were smacked when they were younger.
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