Children lack experience and they lack assumptions developed under old parameters in a rapidly-changing world. Due to practice, adults will often be more persuasive whether their arguments are obsolete or not. And anyway, "under my roof," etc. I hope I parent with some humility.
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Indeed. But the power is not just socially accepted; it’s socially *mandated*. If my boss would accept me being late because I had to discuss something with my 4 year old daughter, I would do so every time.
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The pressure to be authoritarian with your kids is immense, and society indirectly exerts its own power, through me, to make my daughter do things she doesn’t want to.
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