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I've got a friend who's the youngest deacon in the Catholic Church in the diocese that includes Syracuse. He practices what he preaches, so he's had 11 children.

He tells me that each child has an individual personality once they hit the ground. Some kids are easy to discipline, and other ones aren't. Overall, parents of ADD kids use harsher discipline than other parents, however, it appears that they're driven to do that by their children's behavior, not that harsh discipline causes ADD.

My 8-yr-old can sometimes be the best behaved and charming child and sometimes he can be a total embarrassment. We've had arguments in public escalate to having the cops show up and having child protective services knock on our door, so I know that harsh discipline isn't a viable way to get perfect discipline in public.

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Oh yeah, kids who get "You have to be a doctor" parenting have a 50-50 or so chance of succeeding when at least one "doctor" is a parent. Some have brilliant careers, and others screw up totally and end up destitute.