A legalistic attitude in children. If I'm keeping the rules I am right regardless. If you are not adhering to the rules, you are wrong period. Legalism offers little latitude. It maintains a narrow scope of opinion, vision, and redemption.
Legalism is a sad substitute for righteousness.
An improper interpretation of relationships. An imbalance of rules focus can cause children to believe a relationship is a function not a fellowship. Love is understood in terms of a manual's definition or a counselor's explanation. Compassion is swallowed up by the art of execution. Bitterness finds a bed for roots of rules frustration.