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I've noticed that the happiest families amongst my cousins are the ones where for various reasons the parents couldn't hover over the kids too much.

Like one of my cousins had triplets and the parents both worked and everything over there was more like running a small girl scout troop than helicopter parenting. During the baby shower the mom just sent us a big spreadsheet with enormous quantities of baby wipes and diapers, and begged us not to gift any adorable shit. I once ran into them at