WIY: My child does belong to me. That does not mean I can treat them improperly ch’v. But if I wanted my minor child to hold something and old enough to understand, I will tell him to hold it. I do not need his permission. If he will say no, I will punish him for not listening to me, unless he had a good reason to not want to hold it. I cannot imagine what this world would be like if we needed our children’s permission to want and make them do something. It would be chaos. And imagine that! Needing permission from an infant!
I have seen a lot of your posts. They usually make sense. This does not.