Many times it's the uber woke parents who believe in letting their precious darlings express themselves in any manner they choose for fear of crushing the self esteem and for uber cool virtue signaling points (as they were raised by weak patents, as well).
Patenting tip... every once in a while, denting the self esteem of your child is necessary if you care about raising a responsible, capable decent adult. My children laugh because they have been told many times that no punkin, that idea or thought is not worth consideration or discussion because it's stupid. Now, go clean your room. Argue with me any more, and you can go grab me the wooden spoon.
Didn't take them long to learn when to knock off the nonsense. Also didn't take Max long to learn to steal, break and hide every wooden spoon.