Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-30258394-20161018024847/@comment-24674051-20161020141603

Honestly, both Milah and Rumple were terrible parents. First Rumple's cowardice, then Milah's selfishness, and finally Rumple's addiction (to dark power) that drove Bae away.

But, I would say that Rumple did meagerly attempt to control Milah by confronting her about leaving their son to go carousing with pirates (back before he became the Dark One). It was rather pathetic, really. However, Rumple was typically too much of a coward before his DO days to do much of anything other than cower and be manipulated (into kneeling and kissing a man's boots in front of his own son).

After Milah left, Rumple did very little manipulation with regards to Milah, except for manipulating her heart into a pile of dust.

And to the point of manipulation, if you go back to the episode "Heroes and Villains" when Rumple got the Gauntlet, he so much as said that the gaunlet points out a persons weakness, which allows them to be manipulated (paraphrase of what he said). So Rumple (at least Dark One Rumple) has always been about manipulation, and more overt acts when manipulation failed.