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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Actually the best advice I got was 1) parenting is not intuitive and a non-parent can often have better advice than a parent, and 2) more often than not, there is not a direct causation between a parent's parenting style and a child's behavior.

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Yes and no. My sister is incredibly lax with her daughter and just ends up apologizing a lot for her daughter's behavior. It started out small - like my daughter always sharing her toys and her daughter never sharing her toys and then it escalated to her daughter taking my younger daughter's toys, but now her daughter just doesn't have any understanding of what is reasonable (at Christmas she asked my sister if the entire family could eat dinner at the table in the kitchen and when my sister asked us if we all thought that was reasonable and we all said no her daughter threw a huge fit). Her daughter does not tolerate being told "no" even when it's justified. It wasn't a big deal when her daughter was 2, but now that her daughter is 4 it's really becoming a problem. Unsurprisingly, my daughters don't like playing with their cousin and my sister's daughter doesn't get invited to playdates even though my sister is very social with other moms. You can't change your kids' personality but you do need to adapt your parenting style to your kids. You may feel like you are being harder on one kid or always saying "no" to one kid but there may be a good reason for that...[/quote]

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