"Is that what most parents do?" "What did yours do?" Have I mentioned that I love Logan and his parents. What did his parents do? How often does "Is that what most parents do" come up when Logan is talking about parenting?
The Brands wer one of those montessori-toys-from-birth hyper-involved households. rather than order or command him logans parents would generally gather the family round the table and discuss what happened and what went wrong and what they might do next time.
its all very cerebral and Meeting Of Equals because Diane's a hippie and George is a lawyer and Rémy is a bohemian globetrotter so theyre all very Avant Garde about their childrearing.
if, like harry and elliott, logan were keeping a secret from his parents as a child and they knew about it, the immediate thought is not going to be ordering him to elaborate, its going to be making him comfortable and safe and assured until he tells them of his own accord
so Logan finds the idea of a parent forcing or ordering or compelling a child to do really anything to be not only distasteful but bizarre and pointless.
(you can imagine that once george and diane realized just how badly the peacekeepers were treating logan and that their decision to check him into the system was a mistake, they did not handle it well)
