Reply to How to raise disciplined and high achieving children?

Forum Index » General Parenting Discussion

Reply to "How to raise disciplined and high achieving children?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don’t spoil them, even if you are rich. It’s shocking to me how prevalent this is. Give them chores and when they are old enough (15) make them get a job if they want spending money.

They have zero incentive to be high achieving if everything is just given to them.[/quote]

+1. My college boyfriend had amazingly high achieving, ambitious, motivated parents. He and his siblings are the opposite, because even though the parents modeled the behavior, they did not instill a sense of responsibility or consequences in their children. In trouble at school? Move to new private school. Bad grades? No consequences, but let’s go on a ski trip to take your mind off things, and here is brand new ski equipment even though there’s nothing wrong with last year’s stuff. Fail your college classes? Sign up again next semester and here’s a new car. Overspent and cannot pay your rent? Mama’s wallet to the rescue.

Shocker: none of them have successful careers and all still rely on parental help in their 40s. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics