PERSONALITY RULES

Ask anyone who has more than one child (yourself, quite possibly) and they’ll tell you that they’re all different. They can have the same biological parents, grow up in the same family, go to the same school, take the same holidays, but they’ll be completely different people.

And that has implications for the way you bring them up. Your aim is to bring out their individuality, not to mould them into something you want them to be. Well, you know that, you’re a Rules parent after all. But how do you do it? That’s what this next group of Rules is about. Follow these and you’ll enable your kids to grow up into the wonderful, independent, self-assured, ...

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