Great "tangential rant" clod - I'll add that the third child changes the dynamic exponentially too. I think I hit my youngest son once - AFTER he hit his mother and he was plenty old enough to know what he did and how wrong it was. That message was received. We discussed, some time later, what exactly had happened and the whys so on - Its been years and there has never been another isue with it. Proper parenting is as different as we all are. There is no "one way" to do it.
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