What is the definition of dictate here?
"The two-year-old usually attempts to act like a tyrant and autocrat, trying to give orders to its parents, siblings and family pets as if they were menials in its own private army and responds with regal fury when they won't be dictated to"
I get that dictate means "an order or principle that must be obeyed", yet I can't fully get the meaning of it in this sentence.