They "confiscate"??? They just play with it and he gets it back in the end.
Are you really saying that a kid being forced to share his toys is abuse??? What kind of spoilt childhood did you grow up with???
And he'd off himself because he has to share his toys??? Even in the real world, it's not a big deal...
Honestly, even some of the rough housing done with his sister isn't that big of a deal. The only real problem was when his dad gave him a concussion... and that was done for pure laughs...
But for most of human history, kids rough housed and wrestled... and older siblings beating up younger siblings was considered normal. And that's something that was naturally a part of our several thousands of years of history as a species through out the entire world.
If you off yourself for something so small.... you have some way bigger issues....
In fact, objectively, Al is actually the most spoiled one. He has no real responsibilities and gets away with the most. The only "job" he has is to do basic studies and learn self defense which is also for exercise...
I know this might be weird to say, but there are studies showing that modern kids actually have more mental issues than kids of the past...
Kids are way tougher than we give them credit for.... frankly, this seems to be the most coddled generation yet... and they kind of aren't handling it the best...
It's because there are cases of it being overboard and then people say it's all bad. Or things going too far and people saying the entire thing is bad.
We discovered that people didn't care enough about feelings, now people care too much.
I don't remember much about "toys", there i was talking specifically about food, since it's one of his limited actual passions. And yes, they "confiscate" on a premise that "it's obvious that he needs to share with his family, and his food is delicious so i want it". But the problem is that they take it for granted, not even thank you, take ALL OF IT, and smiling wondering when he is gonna make more. No financial support either, they could have provided materials and asked to make more, but no - initial batch was done by his own fund, and if it's confiscated - it's gone, he needs to fund next one by himself as well.
And all of it wouldn't be that bad (while it's already really bad), but it was done to a 4-5 years old boy! That boy is almost toddler! Bright inventor with passion, and then results was taken from him without anything in return. Most obvious result would be him thinking that nothing is worth it, and going into depression stasis that just "live without caring about anything anymore". His family also knows that he is already struggling with finding purpose in life (i mean his wish to just laze around all day), and while it might not be that much of an issue, but just taking away food that he invented, funded, and produced, woould only make him feel that those struggles were kinda worthless, he might as well just discard them and keep lazying around. That's not how you raise a child!
P.S. And when i was talking about "offing himself", i was talking not about myself, you, or any other reader here. I was talking about a underappreciated young 4-5 years old boy, who is about to start thinking that "life is useless". Babies are delicate, VERY delicate. The only reason why it all ended relatively peacefully is because he mentally older and stronger, and just shrugged it off as just slight inconvenience. Fair enough, it's probably this exact attitude made his family to believe that it's acceptable to do this (would he behaved like his age and started crying and screaming, family would probably behaved differently as well), but that's not an excuse. Some kids just take all of it silently, bottle up the emotions, and hold grudge for years to come.
