I feel for the parents too. They were just digging deep into their bag of parenting tricks to try and get little Yamato to stop throwing stone at people and car

I feel for the parents too. They were just digging deep into their bag of parenting tricks to try and get little Yamato to stop throwing stone at people and cars (though the presence of bears in the woods made their strategy a little ill-advised). But mainly I feel sorry for them for the monster they may have created now. Yamato charted his own course. He didn't just sit there sobbing and chastened. Instead he hiked for miles, demonstrated incredible self-sufficiency, survived against the odds and became a national hero and treasure, while his parents have been vilified. He will be the one putting his parents out of the car from now on. And he's only 7, so they have many years more to come. He's probably filling his pockets with stones right now.