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Sir Elton John didn't want kids to "grow up in fear"

Sir Elton John vowed not to let his children fear him

Sir Elton John vowed to never let his children be scared of him after his own childhood filled with "fear".

The 78-year-old singer - who has sons Zachary, 14, and Elijah, 12, with husband David Furnish - vowed when he and his spouse became parents that their kids would have a different upbringing to his, as he was often "walking on egg shells" around his "strict" parents Sheila and Stanley Dwight.

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