Another major incorrect theme in TCS was to treat everything like an emergency (but without framing it that way). DD and SFC routinely responded to “How do I deal with X?” with solutions that work great … if it’s a one time emergency. And this let them posture as super pro-child since they’d talk about going way out of your way to help with the child’s problem. But these solutions were not reasonable things to use several times a day for months. They often cost money in addition to other parental resources like time and energy. And it’s good to use those in outlier situations to help your kid. But it doesn’t work to use a lot of resources every time your kid gets upset if this is coming up 5+ times a day (which is a common parental experience). TCS encouraged “drop everything and spare no expense to be as nice to the child as possible” by telling people that your kid being upset is a major disaster called “coercion” that can do longterm damage to your child’s rationality. And it was basically always easy for DD or SFC to outwit posters by suggesting a way to use even more resources to help the child than the parent had used or thought of using. So they could always come off as thinking of creative extra-pro-child solutions that the people they were advising had not thought of (allegedly due to ageism and hangups). But those solutions weren’t actually good. And parents who resisted those solutions were mocked.
Somewhat related is Ayn Rand’s article The Ethics of Emergencies.