My parenting style is more 'lasi fair' I protect them by giving them paperclips, setting them next to light sockets and saying. "If you put that in there, it'll hurt. a lot." then I stand back with a video camera and watch the sparks fly. Afterwards I ask: "What did I tell you? And what did you do? And what happened? So what did we learn?"
Then I wrap it up with a loving:
"Okay, rub some dirt on that and walk it off."
It should be noted, that the initial egg-donor liked this policy so much she started bangin' other guys in order to find a better role model. or... something?
anyways, kid #1 is totally normal-ish, and kid #2 seems happy enough. *shrug*
so what I'm saying? Don't take any of my advice.
especially the advice about taking advice.
-Ruski