Do you think the Gang of Five get off too easy?

[LittlefootAndAliTogether]

Something that has unnerved me a lot is that the kids never get grounded or punished.  Sometimes, they don't even get scolded.

Given that kids who are let be like that for too long become rebels as teens and adults and possibly criminals, do you worry about them and lack of discipline ever?

Maybe I'm seeing too much but I kind of feel that this issue is one of the weaker points of LBT that needs to be rectified in future releases!  I sometimes feel that it's encouraging kids that they can get away with breaking rules.  

Also, you know that kids tend to be many times what their parents are, so, if Littlefoot ever has kids and keeps up his rulebreaking....

   

[Ducky123]

On the one hand I must agree with you in the point that thye get away too easy most of the time. However, punishing them at the end of the movies would kind of ruin the happy endings  :unsure:

[LittlefootAndAliTogether]

I agree for the most part, though, after Littlefoot does a bit more than the usual rule breaking in my LBT 16, he does get grounded for a week from seeing his friends, which, considering how he snubbed them in that one, will make him value them more and hence can serve a purpose.  

I guess if the punishment can serve a purpose at the end, it's ok, but, otherwise, if not, keep it out of the ending, you're right there.  

[jansenov]

The punishing probably happens off screen, like after the father yells "Kevin!" in a Home Alone movie.

Jokes aside, LBT parents are too soft. In one of my previous posts I compared the Great Valley society with the Semai people, because they are non-violent (most hunter-gatherer or primitive agricultural societies are extremely violent) and lack defined leaders. The Semai people do not punish their children physically, but they do scare them with stories of supernatural beings that will do them harm if they do something they shouldn't. The parents in LBT are soft even by Semai standards. I'd say the LBT parents are supposed to represent some sort of post-modern parent ideal, which doesn't work all that well in reality.

[Littlefoot fan 1990]

I believe so; the parents weren't tough enough when rules were broken. However, punishments for breaking rules would be best left for fanfiction, in my opinion.