Because of the you must know why myth, you may think that really good parents should be psychologically slick enough and insightful enough to elicit their children’s true inner feelings (as opposed to false outer feelings, I suppose), resolve the dilemmas caused by those feelings, and thus enable all conflicts to evaporate. After all, isn’t that what Robert Young was so good at on Father Knows Best? Ah, real parenthood should unfold so nicely.
