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Originally Posted by EULA
They are very much aware that they are powerless, that we have great power over them. They don't like this, and in a vague way look forward to a time when it may not be true. But they are realistic enough to know that at the moment they are not going to be able to do much to change this.
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This is exactly how I felt as a child. When I read this, one memory immediately came to mind. When I was a child, televisions didn’t have remote controls. I was constantly asked to jump up and change the channel or adjust the volume. I hated it - it made me feel like my parents’ personal slave. But I never questioned it, and I never considered not doing as I was told.
That childhood feeling was always with me when raising my daughter. If I ever asked her to do something for me personally (very rare occurance), it was always phrased as a request, with a ‘please’ attached.
Now that I think about it, to this day I find it very hard to ask anyone to do something for me that I could do myself. Maybe my childhood experience as a remote control had a good result in the long run.
