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When kids are cute, young and cuddly, it is not difficult to think of playing with them.

When kids are cute, young and cuddly, it is not difficult to think of playing with them.

ST ILLUSTRATION: MANNY FRANCISCO

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SINGAPORE – What to do when my 17-year-old teenager doesn’t listen to me any more?

I’m regularly asked these types of questions by friends or acquaintances I meet. It seems that writing a parenting column for a newspaper attracts such questions.

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