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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's important to point out that a lot of the parenting stuff mentioned needs to be learned, regardless of how you grew up. I was raised UMC and have had plenty of conversations with other UMC parents over the years that made it clear that most of us wing it on occasion. Life has changed a lot since I was a kid and there are a lot of current UMC standards and expectations that did not exist when I was growing up. [/quote]

I think part of the difference is that since you grew up UMC, you have the baseline knowledge and experience to know that 1) the particular thing that you're winging is not something that everyone UMC just knows and would think odd that you didn't know, and 2) you have enough knowledge of the fundamentals that you're not going to make too big a gaffe by winging it. When you don't have that upbringing, you might be winging the same thing as your UMC friend in exactly the same way and by all appearances "pass," but the lack of that background knowledge makes you a lot more insecure about it.[/quote]

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