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Daddy has his spy hat on!

When a parent becomes a private investigator. [Photo: Standard]

Parents play myriad roles in their children’s lives: provider, protector, pal, priest and private investigator.

Most parents play the PI role unconsciously. If they are brutally honest, kids will confess that this role is more pest than PI. At least, that’s how I felt my mama, Nya’Manoah uncovered - sometimes even without trying - my juvenile schemes … which at the time I thought were pretty elaborate.

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