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If you just got enough expertise and enough special techniques and read up enough, then you could shape a child into the kind of adult you wanted. there's almost this kind of competitive enterprise. that picture is the picture i think people often imply when they use the word "parenting".
-Alison Gopnik
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If You Just Got Enough Expertise And

Alison Gopnik
If you just got enough expertise and enough special techniques and read up enough, then you could shape a child into the kind of adult you wanted. there's almost this kind of competitive enterprise. that picture is the picture i think people often imply when they use the word "parenting".
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