Parenting Todays Teens Radio
  • Too Much Love? (2-23-2011)

     

    PODCAST SCRIPT:

    Can we ever offer a teenager too much love?

    The short answer to that question is “Yes,” if we are showing our love through a steady flow of gifts and through focusing our entire lives on them.  Putting them on such a pedestal will likely create feelings of entitlement.  Instead of being grateful, they’ll begin wanting even more, and become demanding, selfish and self-centered.

    We all want to give our kids everything we didn’t have as kids, but the more we give to our kids, the more they’ll eventually fall into anxiety, depression, and outright defiance, especially as they get closer to having to live on their own and fear the loss of the money train they’ve gotten accustomed to.

     


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