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Minor Issues: Modern parenting methods are complex and varied, but no longer ‘Daiso’

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Parenting styles have evolved, with many parents today adopting a variety of methods to communicate with their children.

Parenting styles have evolved, with many parents today adopting a variety of methods to communicate with their children.

ST ILLUSTRATION: CEL GULAPA

Raymond Goh

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SINGAPORE – It is a truth universally acknowledged that parents love to compare.

We quietly compare how portly our cherubs were at the hour of their nativity, how strapping our youthful charges have since grown to be, and how happily convinced we are of their considerable scholastic prowess. We might even go so far as to compare, betwixt ourselves and other fathers, the size of our Dickensian vocabulary.

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