Quote Originally Posted by Mykll View Post
Child whines and cries doesn't want nasty vegetables. Wants that ice cream and watch cartoons. Parent goes the easy route and gives them ice cream and cartoons, or goes through a little suffering themselves to teach the kid that no it is not okay to throw tantrums, that no, everything is not going to be the way you want, and that in doing so takes away from what the parent really wants to do?

To me, this all sounds like the same thing.
There's no equivalent to vegetables in the analogy though. It's just give ice cream or withhold ice cream. When this shit happens there's no lesson learned or anything gained by being withholding.