The fact that the husband is proving to be a giant man-child with his emotions seems ample evidence that the family screwed up with the whole "let's do nothing but spartan practical training for EVIL" routine, doesn't it? A little genuine socializing is important. ~w~
@Hazeyln: I'm not convinced think she's particularly dim. At least, to the extent she has started to
appear dense because she's not catching on... but what's actually going on should be pretty unthinkable, especially to a former daycare teacher (I mean, Ain being this much of an adult is... unrealistic?). Or, like, having play be a big chunk of the learning schedule would be well-recognized good best-practice for teaching even just as far as its effect on subject matter retention goes. (She should have a way better repertoire than hide-and-seek as a daycare person though—indeed, hide-and-seek would probably be a bane of her existence in those professions: Keep the darn kids where you can see them and keep them out of trouble. But, I digress.) Her husband's reactions seem plausibly impenetrable without the inner monologue, too, so...
But it is at the very least certainly true that she is not genre-savvy.