Well, yeah, and that was exactly what I was thinking, only not in a way where it was a good thing. If you can't explain why something you don't like is happening to you, you tend to develop all sorts of unhealthy "understandings" about yourself and other people. But I guess it's different when the discipline or punishment (is that a taboo word?) or whatever we're calling it follows some sort of logic that the kid will eventually be able to understand without personalizing it.