"Don’t you feel like this will backfire at some point? I don’t think I would have liked it if my parents never explained themselves." This is turning into a di

"Don’t you feel like this will backfire at some point? I don’t think I would have liked it if my parents never explained themselves." This is turning into a discussion of parenting, generally, so I won't go too deeply into this ... What I will say is that stability and predictability are what make this possible. When our children were old enough to care about wifi and Internet and social media, these limitations were no surprise at all to them because they were directly inline with all of our parenting up to that point. We have simple, predictable rules (and schedules and behaviors) and they have a good idea, in advance, as to how everything is going to turn out. And to be clear ... we explain everything to them ... we have a very high level of communication and discussion and learning. It's just never in the context of complaining, bargaining or negotiation.