If you give children the freedom to do very little, quite a lot will do very little.
I suggest we depict penguins as callous and unfeeling creatures who insist on bringing up their children in what is little more than a large chest freezer.
Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.
Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.