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Parental Controls is about choosing who you are rather than defaulting to how you were raised or what was expected of you. Carrie League had followed a high-achievement track — Rice University, then graduate school — that her parents had expectations around. Walking away from a PhD wasn't just a personal decision; it meant overriding an inherited script about what success looked like. Her parents were 'disappointed' in her for leaving, which confirms the weight of those external defaults.