So you do get it!No offence but you had me worried for a while. What say we all meet up in, say, 25 years time and compare notes. Because, let's face it, on this one, the proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Better still, let's make that a date for 40 years hence for, by then, the power-boot will be on the other foot for most if not all of us — our children having the power to rule our lives and tell us what to do.
God I love Nature. She is the most elegant Domme that I know!
And, returning to the original post that started this whole thred, may I say that you are also right, indigo. There is no D/s dynamic to parenting beyond the thread of human nature that permeates all human interactions.
Any who think otherwise and see significant similarity between that which passes between consenting adults and that which passes between adult and child, need to unplug and get out more!
That or they need to go buy body armour, lest they be mistaken for would-be child molesters and abusers of innocents. Not that that would save them if they are of that sort. Where I come from, that's why we have lamp=posts, razor-wire and a river for garbage disposal.!
Agent provocateur sent into the community to manufacture evidence of wrong-doing, incidentally, get treated even more harshly.