We have a way of trying to get some kind of attention. And yet what often happens is instead of getting filled up, we get emptied. We just empty without thinking by treating people the way they deserve to be treated. Children are very much like strings. It gets all buckled up under the pressured of being pushed.
Children are very much the same way.
The more you push them in the direction you want them to go the more they tend to resist. Husbands are kind of like that, too, I've found. No, He leads us, and we need to learn how to lead. Now we don't mean that, but, we're trying to motivate this kid to do what we want him to do. Or we scream.