This sounds like old-fashioned parenting. When we are born, we understand very little, and we need a great deal. Before we have language, we need protection and care. As we grow up, we turn toward our protectors, if we are lucky enough to have protectors, and we look to them for the laws by which we must live. All children push against parental boundaries, but all children need to know where the boundaries are. We bask in the approval of our parents and we fear their disapproval. They are like gods to us. Until they’re not. Growing up is our first experience of the phenomenon of liberty, for
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