#ping george

a little - this realization would have been when he was a junior keeper (george and diane were under the impression that volunteers chose their own assignments which is technically, technically, true, and that logan would never become a keeper) and while logan was very isolated at that point, he was still permitted some contact with his parents while still a minor

so they pretty much immediately hash it out. it takes multiple of their 1hour a week phone calls, and a lot of running mediator from Rémy, but Logans forgiven them for it - thats just kinda how the brands are. it gets hashed out as soon as possible and you keep hashing it out until its resolved.

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.