Thursday, June 30, 2011

Not to scare you, but……

You know from previous posts here that you are not alone if you worry about the entitlement attitudes of your kids. The problem is that some of us laugh about it a little too much and don’t try hard enough to find solutions for it.

So in this post, let us try to shake all of us up a little by asking some serious questions that maybe should scare us even a little more (in order to motivate us to DO more about it). So here goes….

Are you letting your kids fall into a trap that can make their lives (and yours) miserable?

Instead of giving our kids a sense of responsibility, are you giving them the exact opposite—a sense of entitlement?

Are you setting your kids up for disaster by not teaching them how to handle money?

Is your home a little microcosm of a bad economy and a sick society….built on wants rather than needs, and on bail outs, debt, and instant gratification?

Are yesterday’s parenting methods completely unsuited for today’s world?
And are some of the “old reliables” like allowances and withholding of privileges just not helpful anymore and perhaps even becoming counterproductive in raising responsible kids?

Is the technology that surrounds and suffocates our kids causing them to think that everything is “instant”…. sapping our children of real world experience and taking away their chances to earn and to wait and to make good choices and become responsible?


What if many of our basic notions of parenting, lots of the ways our parents raised us, and much of what we read from “experts” in parenting books is now working against us in our efforts to raise kids who are prepared for the world they will inherit?

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