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[quote=Anonymous]I think we all overestimate the importance of parenting. It is an important job to us and probably the best thing we will ever do with our lives. But just about every study shows that outside of extreme neglect and abuse and extreme smothering and helicopteing, little we do as parents affect a child's personality and outcomes.. that is hard to hear because we put so much pressure on ourselves to do everything right and to provide our kids with every opportunity, but in the end, our kids are who they are and are going to do the things they want to do in spite of our best intentions. so if you have a good kid who responds well, we want to pat ourselves on our back and say it's because of our parenting. And if we see a"bad" kid who struggles, we want to say it's because of bad parents. But the truth is, in most cases, it's not parenting at all. [/quote]
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