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[quote=Anonymous]I have been in similar positions and I always wonder how incredibly nice people sometimes end up with really awful progeny.  It seems so off but, I have to think there is stuff going on behind closed doors that we know nothing about.

In some cases, it is that the other parent (almost always the Dad in my experience) spoils the kid terribly and models bad behvaior and never uses consequences or follows through when kid is bad.  My BFF and her husband had that dynamic going with their DD when she was an only child.  He worked all the time, traveled and just spoiled her in the worst ways.  BFF saw some of it and tried to correct it but DD was sneaky and would act out when my BFF wasnt around.  God, she could be a horror.  Then when their daughter was 5, they had another baby and boy did things change after that.  Dad wasnt so forgiving when his DD was horrible to the littler one.  Dad's discipline started to mean something because he saw the results of his bad parenting effecting his own child, the younger one.  Brought it all home and DD is a much better kid now.  Her younger sibling is a dreamboat.  Probably my favorite kid (other than my own) in the world.

But, when I know both the parents, and they are both kind and generous and thoughtful and nice, then its really hard to know what the heck is going on.  There is a family like this at my kid's school in NWDC.  The parents are honest-to-god the nicest people you could ever imagine, utterly lovely human beings.   Their boys are varying degrees of nightmare - oldest a total nightmare, younger not as bad but easily could be in a few years.  Its boogles the mind how these two grown ups could have produced these two boys.  I shudder to think what lies ahead as they get closer to the teenage years.[/quote]

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