High fit

Parental Controls is about choosing who you are instead of just defaulting to how you were raised. Myra Flynn had inherited a very specific approach to her daughter's hair — one rooted in her own mother's approach, which was rooted in her grandmother's. She was running the inherited default without questioning it. The conversation with Martha Mathis was the first time Myra got explicit permission, from the source of that default, to override it. She didn't just tweak her approach — she examined where it came from and decided to do something different.