> Authentic actions by a stable individual are inherently consistent. Whereas forced behaviors that are intended to be consistent rarely are. I think we mean t

> Authentic actions by a stable individual are inherently consistent. Whereas forced behaviors that are intended to be consistent rarely are. I think we mean the same thing, but to be sure: I tried to exclude the following authenticity with my phrasing: If I am relaxed on a saturday afternoon and my child spills it's cornflakes over the print outs I left on the desk, it's no big deal. Me or both of us clean up the mess and I just print them out again. If the same thing happens on a stressfull thursday evening, I am angered and let that anger out. In that example I am authentic, but from the view of the child my response to the same action of the child is not consistent. The child has to have reached a certain age to grasp that my anger is mostly about my stress and not about the actions of the kid (specificially the ability to empathize has to be developed). tl;dr: What I meant with consistency is mostly the parents having a certain amount of affect control. That's probably what you meant with 'a stable individual'.