“That is why some children resent parental advice. They are constantly besieged by an abnormally energetic conscience; and they are so integrally blood related to their parents, and have so many quirks and kinks in common, that their father’s admonition is just another annoying harangue of the sort that their conscience delivers”
An interesting thought with some merit. It is not that some people lack conscience, but rather theirs is already overactive, brutally causing anxiety, hurting their own self-worth. And then when a father points out what they might do differently, they already know, they have already beat themselves up again and again.
Advice to fathers everywhere…. sometimes just zip it!