[dhruvkar]

I would argue that this is larger than just parents.

As a society, this should be a common aim -- to 'socialize' our children.

Growing up, albeit not in the US, strangers would scold us kids for being noisy/bratty/destructive/etc. And our parents would be on the stranger's side, adding their two cents on top.

Can't imagine that today. IMO the loss of the freedom to treat your local neighborhood as one big, loosely connected family (as a child and adult) is one of the biggest reasons for increase in depression, anxiety and lack of social/soft skills. Another reason is that local neighborhoods are few and far between because of how we've structured our cities.

[Nasrudith]

Really not even society can socialize anyone properly - they teach all sorts of insane lessons unwittingly, acting on long accepted pretenses completely separate from nominal goals, let alone effectiveness. And you're the crazy one if you point out what they are doing is utterly nonsensical because "that is just the way things are".