Every child goes through a phase where they say “No” to everything. The more “No”
they hear, the more vulnerable they feel, until they themselves begin to say “No.”

“But what about the wind?” she had asked. “Can the wind hurt you, daddy?”
“Go to sleep, honey,” he had told her. “When you wake up, it will all be over.”

Quotation from Antonio Hopson, The New Tempest