Usable Insight - Spoiled Children - Part 2
Say “Yes” to get them off your back today; ruin their life tomorrow.
Every time you say, “Yes” to your child
when the world would say, “No
you not only enable their immaturity and impulsivity,
you disable them from being able to compete successfully
(and be happy) when they grow up.
My Usable Insight from last week: Does YOUR Child Have “The Right Stuff” (a.k.a. Spoiled Childen - Part 1) hit a nerve and generated many emails and this week’s offering above.
Parent’s don’t want to say, “No” and set limits on their children for a variety reasons – all of them wrong — including: a) wanting their children to like them; b) not wanting their children to be angry at them: c) wanting to give their children what they never received from their own childhood; d) hoping their children will be more appreciative and behave themselves; e) just wanting to shut their kids up and avoid ear shattering temper tantrums.
In the near future I am planning to add Usable Insight quick tip (2-3 mins) video blogs such as: “How to Say, “No” to your child and make it stick from infancy until death do your part.”
If that is something you would find helpful in addition to my Usable Insight mailing, please leave a comment telling me so and also suggest some real life issues from your personal and professional lives that you’d like immediately usable tips on.
Also please visit me at the “Obstacles - What’s Holding You Back?” group at my partner Keith Ferrazzi’s (author of Never Eat Alone) community. Please check it out, share and learn how to overcome your roadblocks to success and happiness.
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:40 am
I see it everyday in the children of my clients. The children who grew up are the children who either were not offered or who did not accept the largess and indulgence of their parents.
Be loving and kind but make them grow up.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:59 am
Video of name calling children.
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November 20th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Hi I like your post “Usable Insight - Spoiled Children - Part 2″ so well that I like to ask you whether I should translate into German and linking back. Answer welcome. Greetings Schlauchboot
November 21st, 2008 at 10:42 pm
I have been telling my 17-month daughter ‘no’ since she could first ask for things. It’s not always a request for a ‘thing’; sometimes we don’t have time for what she wants to do. And she is almost always fine with hearing no and the times she is not, the protest doesn’t last long.
December 4th, 2008 at 2:28 am
Hello webmaster I like your post “Usable Insight - Spoiled Children - Part 2″ so well that I like to ask you whether I should translate into German and linking back. Answer welcome. Greetings Kroatien
January 5th, 2009 at 3:47 am
hello…
I have already seen it somethere…