How to deal with unreasonable demands on children

Posted by admin on Sunday Aug 29, 2010 Under Home Schooling

Parents yield to the requirements of a child is free to meet her request, over time, children will develop into a “give me something,” the habit, a behavior required more and more things.
    How to let the child become “my thing” this habit? If your child has this habit, how to change? Here’s expert advice.
    Educate their children not to indulge in TV and toys.
    If you kids do meaningful activities, children will not leave you alone all day, making for. Today, almost no parents named their children do anything. Parents should arrange a schedule, called the children to do chores, this can prevent a child become “my stuff” this habit. Even if a child 4 years old, he can help clean up breakfast dishes, Wei Mao, for watering plants and so on. Old baby to bed, and finishing work in the garden bathroom.

    Every time the store to buy things, do not always give your child to buy goodies. Parents to do this often caused due to guilt during the day, parents had to work most of the time, not around children, they want compensation point the child.

    Often buy gifts for children may make you feel a kind of generous feeling, but the children began to feel that he is entitled to enjoy such treatment, and has been requested with.

    From the outset it clear to the child, bought him things that a decision after careful consideration. If you do not want to buy your child, do not look for excuses, the child said, “we are so poor,” this type of case, reminded them that happiness is not to have a lot of things. Emphasis on what, some things are waste, not worth buying. Provides some boundaries and eventually the child views the transition to a consumer, then it is a discipline of saving people.

    If you think a child’s request is worthwhile, give him a chance to earn money, buy this thing themselves. You can say the words of this kind, which can stimulate the child “self” motivation and drive to do things.

    If you refuse the request of the child, the simple reason that you are clear. One day in the supermarket, a father explained to the 4-year-old son. Buy bags of potato chips “is not a good choice because much nutritional value, which contains fat and salt, harmful to health.” In a store, a mother told her daughter that she can not buy a pack of flat hairpin, because “many hairpin hair clip not live.”

    This interpretation of the adults, sounds of civilization, but a child, it sounds far-fetched. Best to issue a firm “no”, then tell you that the simple explanation: “bad for you.”

    Once you say no, we must insist in the end. You “give me stuff” The response of the Church children some important information: “What can be and what can not be.” Let a child know: crying people uncomfortable, would not achieve its own ends.

    “If necessary, leave the store,” family psychologist advised that, “Sometimes, even if the trouble, you have to prove it.”

    As a parent, your job is to help your child decide what the most deserved, and then to show them the correct way to get these things. Help children learn an important lesson is: get something for nothing than to say “give me something” more costly labor.

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