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Totally agree! I think parents are under a lot of pressure today to be the best at parenting (whatever that means) what with counsellors and influencers adding their two bits. If parents are balanced, satisfied and content (or working towards these) then children will naturally imbibe from them. High time parents enjoyed parenting!!

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Very Thoughtful!

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Well the Jury is not all that out. Simply put, parents are not as important as we all want to believe, they can't mold their children as is popularly believed by both a lot of psychologists and by most lay people. Most good evidence beares this out. It's not just the behavioral genetics evidence but a lot more good quality evidence from family studies and sociocultural studies, developmental psychology and many more fields.

I like your article a lot. Thanks for this great article.

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Interesting article Anju, thank you. I agree that, as parents, we need to teach by demonstration. Stepping up to do the work on one’s self will shift the dynamic of the family.

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