“Only a fool would offer detailed predictions…”

On the other hand, I suppose evaluating the fathering skills of a stranger on the internet on the basis of a single, one paragraph anecdote is the epitome of wisdom.

Picture this conversation:

{Daughter}, would you mind if provided some stranger on the internet with your contact information so that she can question you about how you were raised and what you think about your upbringing and evaluate your answers to decide if she’s “impressed?”

I imagine that conversation would go well.

“If you can show her this conversation and share a laugh about it…”

That won’t be necessary since we’ve already shared that laugh. It was shared a few seconds after I made the remark about her bedroom. (Since it was at least 26 years ago, my memory of the details is a bit hazy. When I think about it she was probably closer to 13 or 14 than 17. And since it was after dinner it might have been the dirty dishes in the sink, rather than her bedroom. The details were not important to the message I was intending to convey with the comment we are discussing so I didn’t really pay a lot of attention to making sure that they were accurate). If I were to have included the wider context surrounding the event described in the comment we are discussing you would realize why we all ended up having a good laugh afterwards, but the wider context was not relevant to the message I intended to convey with my comment so I left it out to avoid boring my readers.

Shall I bore you with the rest of the story?

Am I supposed to care whether or not you are “impressed?” There are a variety of ways to raise children to successful adulthood. Who are you to determine which ones are correct? The only way to measure the quality of any particular method is through observation of its outcome.

My daughter (and my granddaughter) are both successful adults. If you wish to argue with success then be my guest.