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The older you get, the more serious the consequences of your actions tend to be. Best to learn about those consequences early, from someone who loves you and means you well, rather than later, from the cold, cruel world, which cares about you not at all.

With the caveat that I am not a parent, it strikes me that delivering those consequences is a crucial--though often difficult and sometimes heartrending--aspect of parenting.

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Or, for example, if someone is simply obnoxious, or socially inept: in high school or college, this can get you snubbed, and perhaps it will ruin your social life for a week, or even a semester.

Later in life, that can become a career-limiting move. It might ruin a business partnership. You might get fired.

Objectively, the consequences are worse as an adult. They *feel* worse as a youth, but that's because as a youth you're generally shielded from some of the repercussions, and you have insufficent perspective with which to judge.