[mitthrowaway2]

My parents did a fantastic job of raising me. However, at the time that I was a child being raised, I didn't take notes about the things they were doing that worked so well. I was just a kid, and had only the vaguest notion at the time that I might someday be a parent myself. I had no mind about me to study how I was being parented.

Now I wish I had a more detailed memory. I have many memories of my childhood of course, but I don't remember the little things that my parents were doing "behind the scenes" to make it all work.