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I have had similar experiences with my sons. Of course, we all know about Mark Twain's observation on the relative learning abilities of parents and children. I have 3 sons, now 36, 32 and 28. About the time the youngest got to about 20, I suddenly realized that they had all metamorphosed from sullen, rebellious, and generally enraging little wretches whom I wanted, at various times, to kill, or at least sell into slavery, into normal human beings with whom it was  actualy possible to have an adult conversation. Within a year or two, we all actually became friends. Now I'm thinking that some day I may have to apologize for some of the ways I disciplined them, but maybe not; those methods seem to have worked, although if I used them today I would be locked up.
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My sister, who has reason to know, insists that all boys should be shoved into a barrel at five years of age and fed through the bunghole until they're 25 ...
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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>>>My sister, who has reason to know, insists that all boys should be shoved into a barrel at five years of age and fed through the bunghole until they're 25 ...<<<
by this reasoning, my husband and brother, both of whom are exceptional human beings, should be in boxes right now. me as well, if you count girls. i can't say for my husband, since i met him when we were both 19, but my brother developed into his wonderful self around 18 (about the time he graduated highschool, met the girl he dated for years, started college, and got a somewhat regular job.)
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Well, being one myself, I find it hard to agree with her either! 
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Being the father of sons only, I don't have any experience with raising daughters. But from what I know about young females in contemporary culture, I can tell you that if I should somehow become the father of a girl-child, she would be locked in the cellar on her 11th birthday and let out on her 21st.
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