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[quote=Anonymous]My cousins are kind of like that.  Some of them got in trouble with drugs/goofed off and partied too hard and dropped out of college, one got pregnant at 19.  One of them is one of the most wonderfully accomplished, grounded people I know, and some others cleaned up their act when they got older--so the same parenting style had different results for the different kids.  Growing up, my aunt and uncle had a different parenting style than my parents and they let them watch R rated movies earlier, eat more junk food, watch more TV, use power tools at an earlier age, wear more revealing clothing, etc.  Honestly, I think you are over-thinking this.  My cousins and I had a great relationship, but I only saw them a few times a year, versus I LIVED with my parents.  I got to enjoy the different, laxer rules when I visited them, and maybe got exposed to a few things my parents thought were not ideal--but I probably would have gotten exposed to it at school anyway.  You can't isolate your kid from the fact that different families have different parenting styles.  Most of my values/behaviors came from my nuclear family.

As I got older...like late teenager-20something and watched some of them party and screw up their lives, they became more of a cautionary tale than a bad influence.[/quote]

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