No, I think the training of children can't accurately be called an expression of animality. Our domestication amounts to a revolt against animality, a profound preference for cultural ideals to which nature at large is blind. I explain that revolt by positing existential alienation that underlies all cultures and civilizations.

I talk about this more here:

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/if-youre-conscious-you-re-alienated-81c7565594e3?sk=912a6ba4c033b8b22e4b4d19f88cbb9e

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/personhood-as-the-pinnacle-of-alienation-c7fe529a7c67?sk=ad61e69871ab93477c0eaee3168de12a

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/youre-either-free-and-alienated-or-enslaved-to-physics-or-society-330928491d0d?sk=242767d619583148a21c82ac8527bcde

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/how-civilization-devours-nature-like-a-black-hole-d044fd1bf8ea?sk=986b30b7a661914f495d64fb373603ca