Sounds like your parents were overprotective. Why did you have to wait until you were 6 to use a pocket knife? Why couldn’t 6 year old you go to the pool by you

Sounds like your parents were overprotective. Why did you have to wait until you were 6 to use a pocket knife? Why couldn’t 6 year old you go to the pool by yourself? Your parents were overly worried with protecting your physical nature. They robbed you of years developing your own ability to assess risk.