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Now, one of those ideas about parenting that people have is that there's two kinds of parents. In this case, parents that have a good method of doing a puzzle, and see their job to teach the child how to use that method to do puzzles, and the other parents that see their job as encouraging their kids to do the puzzles on their own, not presuming to impose their method of puzzles (perhaps not really liking puzzles that much, or perhaps thinking that what needs to be taught is not a method but a method for finding methods).

However, it turns out that you can't actually be either sort. I've tried them both. You methodically sort out the corners, the edges, explaining the virtue of this method and so on, but the kid has a burst of inspiration about the baby ducks all going together and has three pieces put together before you finish sorting the edges. Who is the parent that will scold such anarchy?

Or you try a sort of Socratic approach, encouraging various problem solving approaches and asking questions about the various pieces placed and not yet placed, but then the child runs into frustration, tears and anger. Does one sit back and try to calm the child or teach calming methods to the child, or does one deftly string together a few edge pieces?

The edge pieces thing works pretty well.

So whichever kind of puzzle parent one is, one isn't just that.