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Raising a Responsible Child: How Parents Can Avoid Indulging Too Much and Rescuing Too Often

Raising a Responsible Child: How Parents Can Avoid Indulging Too Much and Rescuing Too Often

Ellis, Elizabeth

Paperback

General Parenting

ISBN10: 0806518243
ISBN13: 9780806518244
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
Published: Jan 1 1996
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.01
Language: English
It has often been said: Give a man a fish, and he has food for a day. Teach him to fish, and he can provide for himself over a lifetime.

Raising a Responsible Child explains the phenomenon of the overindulgent parent--who helps and protects too much -- and the underdeveloped child--who never really learns to stand on his or her own feet.

Today many parents are especially prone to shower their children with love and attention and attempt to minimize stress by doing for them. In the scurry of modern life, parents often can't resist giving in to children's demands or solving their problems just to keep the peace. While this is basically a loving approach, it does not teach children how to be responsible and independent. Parents learn the hard way that their overindulgence does more harm than good: their children will only come to them with more demands and act helpless in the face of new problems.

If you find yourself entrenched in this pattern, you can change by using a system of consistent, straight forward, and logical rules every day. You can teach your children to take responsibility for their actions and earn their privileges -- and you will find, perhaps to your surprise, that they are willing and ready to do so.

Some of the issues this book will help you to deal with are:

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