It seems to me that children are not generally indulged enough.

They are thwarted and restrained in respect to the gratification of their harmless wishes a great deal too much.

Indeed, as a general rule, the more that children are gratified in respect to their childish fancies and impulses, and even their caprices, when no evil or danger is to be apprehended, the better.
When, therefore, a child asks, "May I do this ?" or, "May I do that ?" the question for the mother to consider is not whether the thing proposed is a wise or a foolish thing to do--that is, whether it would be wise or foolish for _her_, if she, with her ideas and feelings, were in the place of the child--but only whether there is any harm or danger in it; and if not, she should give her ready and cordial consent.
_Antagonism between Free Indulgence and Absolute Control_.
There is no necessary antagonism, nor even any inconsistency, between the freest indulgence of children and the maintenance of the most absolute authority over them.

Indeed, the authority can be most easily established in connection with great liberality of indulgence.

At any rate, it will be very evident, on reflection, that the two principles do not stand at all in opposition to each other, as is often vaguely supposed.