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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9413220" data-attributes="member: 18">Nah. When you're centering blame and intentionally ignoring realities in the way you are here, it's just silly and irrational, frankly. It can be fun and cathartic, sure, but's a hollow thing to say.I've seen enough kids raised at 46 to know that there's surprisingly little connection between "telling your kids what to do and how to live" and how they actually behave. The only things I've seen which seem to work are:1) Actual unconditional love for your kids that doesn't become smothering or overprotective.2) Keeping them away from obviously-bad influences, which very much includes stuff like, I dunno, going to Eton or in this case, hanging around the Red Keep.3) What behaviours you model for them.That's talking about positive factors, of course, there are countless negative forces that can get in on things. And like, people don't intuitively know all this. Especially not people who weren't raised well themselves. It's not even really cultural knowledge in most societies.Parenting princes in a monarchical society isn't just a hard job, it's an extremely challenging one, that can easily be made basically impossible. The main way the father "failed" here was by becoming extremely ill. The main way the mother "failed" was by being a child bride who obviously, being a child, didn't really know how to raise children, and didn't have the holistic viewpoint you'd have needed to realize they needed to not be raised at court if she wanted them to be sane and kind.</blockquote>

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