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Thanks! I take that as the utmost compliment!

A lot rings true, not only from my adventures in parenting, but also my parents' 'skills'. Oh boy... can'o'worms time!

Yeah while I was writing this like I said I'm mostly digging deep to show everyone something I don't always admit to myself even. Anyways, found this, but didn't include it because the images were already getting heavy. Felt appropriate, especially in my case if you just swap mother for father :D

Yeah... unfortunately for me, I had to learn from my parents' mistakes. Fortunately for my children, I learned fast - 'How not to parent' was the best lesson I learned from mine... hence the can'o'worms comment :)