Give two examples of how George and Lydia raise their children poorly.

George and Lydia do not discipline their children very well. After being frightened by the lions, Lydia asks George to lock up the nursery for a few days until she settles down. George protests, saying that the last time he locked it up for a few hours, Peter and Wendy through fits. He only reluctantly locks it up when he is suspicious that the children are lying about conjuring Africa. This seems similar to contemporary...

George and Lydia do not discipline their children very well. After being frightened by the lions, Lydia asks George to lock up the nursery for a few days until she settles down. George protests, saying that the last time he locked it up for a few hours, Peter and Wendy through fits. He only reluctantly locks it up when he is suspicious that the children are lying about conjuring Africa. This seems similar to contemporary children and cell phones, video games, and/or iPads. George and Lydia let the children play in the nursery too much. George wonders if their strategy of parenting is wrong. He says, "We've given the children everything they ever wanted." This is the definition of spoiling children. How can they respect their parents if they get anything they want and a tantrum overrides any attempts at discipline? Then George admits this is what's happened: 

Who was it said, 'Children are carpets, they should be stepped on occasionally'? We've never lifted a hand. They're insufferable—let's admit it. They come and go when they like; they treat us as if we were offspring. They're spoiled and we're spoiled. 

Both the children and the parents are spoiled by technology. The psychologist agrees that the children have been spoiled and that the nursery should be torn down. The psychologist adds that George and Lydia have let the nursery become the children's parents. The only real enjoyment and affection they get is from the nursery. This is why the children are so scared of being locked out of the nursery. They're not just addicted to the passive entertainment of the nursery's technology. They are also addicted to the sense of belonging that they get from it. The psychologists explains: 

You've let this room and this house replace you and your wife in your children's affections. This room is their mother and father, far more important in their lives than their real parents. And now you come along and want to shut it off. No wonder there's hatred here. You can feel it coming out of the sky.