Are Your Children Too Busy To Do Chores?
When children are not required to do chores, they grow up to become adults who don’t have life skills like cooking, cleaning, balancing a checkbook, and more.
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A Recipe for Raising Helpless Teenagers
When parents overindulge they unknowingly train their children to become helpless, and as a result, overindulged children have greater difficulty in reaching future goals.
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There is a Right and a Wrong Way to Parent – Part 2
Can you love your children too much? Can you give your children too much? What do permissive, authoritarian, and authoritative parents have in common?
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Strategies to Teach Children Delayed Gratification
Help children to create plans, prioritize their goals, celebrate after reaching a goal, save money, and use positive self-talk.
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Strategies To Teach Children Delayed Gratification – Part 1
Rewarding self-control, modeling it, teaching distractions, if-then thinking, and goal setting are some of the strategies parents can use to teach children self-control.
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Is Your Child An Instant Gratifier Or A Patient Postponer?
Why do some children grow up and are able to resist temptation, delay gratification, and other children do not? What does this have to do childhood overindulgence?
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Strategies To Raise a Grateful Child
Gratitude, just like a garden, starts with tilling the soil, planting the seed, watering, fertilizing, and nurturing.
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All They Want To Be Is Rich, Famous And Look Good!
Overindulging children leads to External rather than Internal life goals resulting in a greater risk of unhappiness, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and intimacy problems.
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