- Develop skills for setting and enforcing limits and boundaries.
- Surround themselves with like-thinking friends so that they don’t
have to listen to the mistaken beliefs of those who are busy creating
entitled children.
Your Kids Can Be the Fortunate Ones
Obviously, until universities, high schools, community leaders, and
particularly parents work together to provide a culture that encourages
coping skills by allowing children to experience the fruits of their good
and poor decisions, the culture of self-indulgence will be hard to
overcome. Thankfully, though, we have seen many parents who are
successful at helping their kids avoid the infliction of entitlement.
Parents who study and use Love and Logic parenting techniques increase
the odds of raising kids who do not show symptoms of entitlement.
Fortunate, indeed, are the children whose parents are willing to let
them struggle for, and earn, the goods and services they want.
Fortunate, indeed, are the children whose parents subscribe to the
“matching funds” approach. These parents help their children buy goods
and services after the kids earn and save a portion of the cost.
Fortunate, indeed, are the children whose parents expect them to do
their fair share of the work required to maintain a household.
Fortunate, indeed, are the children whose parents set loving limits, give
their children reasonable choices, and allow consequences of those
choices to prepare them for the adult world.^8