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I grew up with a friend whose mum would never tell him what was going on until she had to. She seemed to think that parenting should operate on a need-to-know basis. In many ways she was a great mum – patient, fun, loving – but it drove my mate crazy that she would spring things on him at the last minute, or organise things behind his back. As he got older she’d ask him to do things around the house. If anything was unusual he tended to ask why he was doing it (‘Why are we moving the table out of the kitchen?’, ‘What do you need me to buy eggs for at this time of night?’, and the like), but she played her cards close to her chest. She was full of phrases like ‘What you don’t know won’t hurt you,’ or ‘Curiosity killed the cat’. ...
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