Since all children must grow up surrounded by adults, they are predisposed to consider themselves small, weak and incapable of living alone.↵
They do not trust themselves even to do those simple tasks of which adults believe they are capable without mistakes or clumsiness.↵
Most of our errors in child-rearing begin at this point.↵
When we demand more than children can do, the idea of their own helplessness is thrown into their faces.↵
Some adults even consciously make children feel their smallness and helplessness.↵
Others treat children as animated dolls to be played with.↵
Others again treat children as valuable property that must be carefully watched, while still others make them feel they are so much useless human freight.↵
A combination of these attitudes on the part of parents and other adults often leads children to believe they have control over only two things: the pleasure and displeasure of their elders.