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INDULGENT PARENTS, SPOILT KIDS - VOICE YOUR VIEWS
Not fair
Parents are in their own world in making money. Schools are there to make children memorise and pass while making lot of money themselves. In this scenario, where is the time for either parents or teachers to inculcate moral values or ideologies ...
Knotty situation
Indulgent parents are indeed moulding their kid’s mentality turn into a different passion. Meeting all their demands may not prove troublesome at beginning but later, when the children grow up the situation turns knotty. As the children ...
Train him
A steep hike in the parental income has changed their mindset. Parents feel their children should not be belittled by peers and be provided with all comforts. They indulge to gratify children’s wants, pamper them and deny them nothing. ...
Blame it on parents
Gone are the days when strict discipline was enforced in grooming the children. Working mothers have very little time to spend with their children. They feel guilty for not spending time and yield to the wishes of the kids and give into their ...
Give them fair rules
We all love our children and want them to succeed in this competitive world. Parents should be friendly with their kids to understand their pains, especially with the teens. Parents, are there to indulge, pamper, and sometimes overdo the spoiling ...
Making them ill-equipped
Excessive petting is a rebellious declaration by the parents to show the world that they can buy lots of ice cream, loads of toys and indulge in every whim that was denied to them. In some of the cases, it is delayed fulfilment where in the ...
Like parents
Parents’ behaviour, attitude towards life and society strongly influence their children’s minds. Showering too much love, excess money, costly gifts and no check on their behaviour spoil them. Symptoms of children’s bad ...
Guide them properly
Apart from being indulgent, parent should teach moral values and our culture to children. They must be guided in the right direction by directing their creativity towards innovation and purpose. Indulging can include progress in areas of ...
Make them responsible citizens
Parents indulge too much to keep their children happy just to compensate for the time they have not spent with them. But they fail to realise that by doing so they are making their wards spoilt brats. Children may be happy initially but at a ...
Affection works
The saying ‘Spare the rod and spoil the child’ does not hold good today. Frequent scolding and beating of children for not studying well make them obdurate and unmanageable. Comparing children with others and chiding them will have ...
Build confidence
Children are easily prone to distractions thanks to television, video games internet. Its time parents spend some quality time with their children. If the parents can build the confidence among children by way of encouragement the kids can do ...
Be successful
Indulgent parents are not successful in making their child understand life as a whole. Parents should be strict to some extent to make the child discover and cultivate his innate capacities and to avoid him to take the wrong ...
Don’t distract them
Freedom and love are the two things that every kid wants. Those two things play an important role in moulding them. In today’s world, with the single child phenomena becoming the norm with the career conscious parents, children do not get ...
Be a good teacher
Parents are the best teachers. They should guide their kids to learn manners, behave well and can inculcate discipline in them right from their schooling days. Parental monitoring is essential to correct ...
Killing their enthusiasm
Children learn through perception from their surroundings. They just make their choices from what they see. If parents provide too much luxury at the earlier stage itself, children would never try to look beyond and get habituated to be ...
Be a guide
Children are groomed by their parents to have a good future. When a child’s attitude is getting diverted towards false means then parents should counsel him. They should behave like a guide or a friend but not as a ringmaster in a circus. ...
Frustrated lot
Parents have no time for their children’. They compensate this lapse by buying whatever the child asks forirrespective of the cost. The child misses the parents and tries to fill this void with the pleasures that money can buy. Parents are ...
Strike a balance
The luxury market is one chapter in the India’s story of rising affluence. While neglect and pampering are clearly bad recipes for child-raising, excessive preoccupation also has its drawbacks. Pampered child syndrome has produced a ...
Avoid restrictions
Parents should inculcate in their children the habit of learning ethical values. Unless they are trained properly kids can no longer perform well. Similarly too many restrictions should be avoided, only then kids can have some freedom in certain ...
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