No. They can see that there are other ways of living by watching their peers or random people on the street.
But they need somebody to make them understand that it’s not them who are destroying the relationship with their surroundings and their chance for being happy but the other way around.
Some children in bad situations understand that without guidance but they are rare.
Speculative. I rather think that it shows them that there are other ways of living and that they have agency to get there.