Am I a good parent if I steadily indulge my kids and tend to support all they do?
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Am I a good parent if I steadily indulge my kids and tend to support all they do?
The best way to approach your child’s wants is to shape their environment to foster independence. If your child wants a toy at the other end of the room, but your child can’t even crawl yet. Go get a book and settle down. Let your child grunt, rock back and forth, flip themselves over like a turtle and wail in frustration. Resist the urge to get the toy for them. Resist the urge to pick the child up and move them to the toy. You know what happens to babies who are carried everywhere? They don’t learn how to walk until weeks or months after their peers. Your child wants a snack. Fill the lowest cabinet in your kitchen with snacks that you find acceptable. Put in dishes, and keep a small pitcher of water and a small carton of milk on the bottom shelf of your fridge. Let your child get out their own snack. When they spill, tell them it’s okay. Point them to the dishrags.
Parenting is such a hard task, and nothing can exactly prepare you for parenting. Over indulging a child can poorly prepare them for a career by giving them a false sense of reality, by itself, however, isn’t a deal breaker. At the end it is the holistic background, and most importantly, the determination of the young adult, which define their character, and what they bring to their own career.