This is very true smh

All good life skills surely. Optimally, trust must be given in order to “teach” otherwise You are “managing them” not “teaching them.” Trust must be given because as adults- we are really mostly at the mercy of our own self discipline. You can teach self discipline- but in part that requires you to allow the possibility and consequences of acting in ways that aren’t what you desire. Being strict with routines can be useful- forming habits and patterns- but enforcing that discipline has to come from a place where the consequences aren’t JUST from YOU but so the child can see that there is a natural consequence to their actions and learn to trust that you tell them things for a reason.

I find it strange that most parents try to hijack their kids' lives even when they're already adults

Just don't be a little shit.

To this day if I have not been given the permission to do something related to other people/new places I won't and I feel like I'm always disrupting people. It was a very shitty "skill" and I'm trying to get rid of it because it just makes me seem like a bumbling fuck at work.

Those are all really good life skills

WE BECAME SPIES IN DISGUISE