In many families, you make a mistake, you get in trouble. That eventually teaches kids to work hard to reach perfection, an impossible goal
I wonder what happened when you were a child and you made a mistake or failed at something.
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It depended on the situation. The only thing I didn’t do is lie to not get punished.

I dont think the expectation is for perfection but more of a mold. In real world workout or parents if we do something bad and get caught we get punished through Jail or having to pay a fine or court. As a parent now I see why not everything we did bad got us grounded it just depended on the situation.