It starts at birth the child learns to control others for their wants, needs and desires.
So easy to give in to the child for ones peace of mind and have no guilt feelings of being an old meanie.
We see them often in stores, little toddlers all tuckered out from trying to keep up with an adult who for every step they take the child must take 3-4 to keep up. After an hour or so the child will just sit down and refuse to move, its feet and legs hurt, all the child needs is home and its own bed. Heard the expression of being over tired or over stimulated ?
It goes on I have seen kids as old as 8 years old throw a fit when the adult refuses to buy them something in a store. Adults give in so as to not make a scene.
By the time the child is 12 they are well on their way in the control department, the schools have taught them how to strangle the parents with laws that protect them from being held accountable for their actions.
Parents today have a hard road to hoe, they are up against the so called professionals who will not even knowing the child tell you that children must express them selves and applauded when they take markers to expensive wall paper or set the cat on fire.
My heart goes out to the parents of Chris, the last 10 years must have been a nightmare for them. They tried with hands tied, no wood shed for the child, no down right sit down talks that in any way abused the child's ego, none of this " look you little bastard, ship up or ship out "
I have neighbors that had a 22 year old son living with them. The man had been put into 4-5 boxes by the school system and now found his life a breeze, he held his parents as hostage.
When he wanted something and did not get it he became violent towards his father, an old man in a wheel chair. When the father tried to protect himself and fought back it was the father who was blamed for the altercation.
End of story is when his father passed away his mother found a man who moved in and threw her son out, sort of it's that son or me make your choice.
UP shot is the son found work, and for the first time in his life a girlfriend, he was free of all the enabling forces in his life and had to fend for himself.