I'm so happy moms like you exist out there, makes me proud to be a human being.
I tend not to see that way of raising kids so much unfortunately - except in my hippie vacations at the dancefloor where parents are like you have just described here.

When I'm out, here, I am often confronted with moms treating their kids like little idiots at the supermarket or train station, yelling at them, forbidding things, shushing them with no good reason - and the kid will revert back to his smartphone instead. Gruesome and sad.

You can already tell that kid is somewhat numb by years of this, and has himself become a little nuisance because he had been treated as such for years.

High Five for open an minded raising of the next generation! You remind me of the way my mom raised me.