That is why the authority of the parent is so vital in getting the child to acknowledge the validity of both of these interlocked concepts. Children learn at astonishing rates of speed. All parents take pride in this fact, yet not one parent in a hundred really seems to understand just how fast his child does learn. At times they seem to affect stupidity in order to better expedite their conniving. Parents who fail to see the signs of an infant's con job only confirm the child in any lack of respect he may have for the family.
Children see and they remember differences between stated principles and demonstrated action.
That is a child's means of survival, and he learns it very well and very early. A child may do just as his parent says, but in all likelihood he is thinking something very different. Force, used to conquer a child's rebellious will, does not guarantee anything about the state of the child's thoughts. The competition begins the day the child goes to school. If the concept of private property is worth defending, and if personal responsibility is the moral basis of private property, then the family must be the scene of the child's introduction to the responsibilities of ownership.