Objects don't have access to their parents like how you might access a parent folder in your file system. Given any arbitrary object you can only dig down into the properties the object contains, not go up into any object that might contain it. One of the reasons for this is that an object might have multiple parents. Its perfectly allowable for one object to be assigned as a property of two different objects while still being the same object (not a copy). const obj = { nest: function() { console.log("what is my parent?"); } }; const parent1 = { child: obj }; const parent2 = { child: obj }; console.log(parent1.child === parent2.child); // true obj.nest(); // "what is my parent?" parent1.child.nest(); // "what is my parent?" parent2.child.nest(); // "what is my parent?" However, in your particular case, since you are defining createUser yourself, you have the option to make the object created accessible to any other function you created in there as well. All you need to do is assign it to a variable first before returning it. That way any function within the object will have access to the entire object structure using that variable name. From that you can dig down into any value you want. function createUser (name = 'default', age = 0) { const user = { name, age, profile: { city: "NYC", state: "New York", country: "US", greet: function() { console.log(name); console.log(this.city); }, obj: { nest: function() { console.log(name); console.log(user.profile.city); // <-- going down from the root, no way up } } } }; return user; } The only way to go up through a structure like this is if you provide the links yourself. If you've worked with the HTML DOM you may have seen an example of this. Each element there has a parentNode that lets you go up to the parent node of the DOM tree. What's different about the DOM vs regular JavaScript objects is that the DOM manages those parents for you whenever you add or move elements within the tree. And in the DOM you can only have one parent. If you have an element as a child of a div and add it to also be a child of a p, it gets automatically removed from the div parent so that the only parent is now the p. So while having something in place to let you easily walk up parents like that is possible, a lot more bookkeeping is involved - bookkeeping that isn't present in normal JavaScript objects. More on reddit.com

So I’m not sure whether I have a fundamental misunderstanding of how objects work, but I’m trying to write a program which requires accessing nested objects, however it’s not a simple case of accessing the object via the object name. For example, if I have: const itemsList = { item1: ... More on forum.freecodecamp.org

Hello! So for the Javascript challenges, I am stuck in the “Accessing Nested Objects” part. The sub-properties of objects can be accessed by chaining together the dot or bracket notation. Here is a nested object: v… More on forum.freecodecamp.org

Hi FCC, I’ve been struggling with this problem for a day or two and I have been able to get close but not the full solution that I am looking for. Say I have two arrays like so, const arr1 = ['a','b']; const arr2 = ['a… More on forum.freecodecamp.org