#181: Raising an Unspoiled Child & Overly Competitive Child
Parenting Beyond Discipline
Erin Royer, MA Clinical Psychology, Child Development Specialist
4.4 • 631 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
How do you raise a child who is not spoiled? Erin talks about what her understanding of an "unspoiled" child is, and the three areas to focus on to make sure children grow up kind, caring, independent and responsible. The second question is about what to do when a child struggles with competition and gets overly upset when losing. Erin talks about the development of competition in all children and children who naturally have a competitive nature.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Your Village podcast, Parenting Beyond Discipline. |
| 0:08.4 | Your Village is the most comprehensive site for evidence-based parenting classes available on-demand. |
| 0:14.8 | At Your Village online.com. |
| 0:17.6 | Our 50-plus classes give parents the foundation, steps, and tools for creating strong, healthy |
| 0:22.8 | relationships with their children, resulting in responsible, cooperative, happy, and successful |
| 0:28.5 | children and families. |
| 0:30.1 | My goal is to help parents support their children in finding and reaching their own unique |
| 0:35.2 | potential. |
| 0:36.6 | The podcast is a place to learn about all things parenting |
| 0:39.9 | and get your questions answered. I'm your village founder and your host, Erin Royer. |
| 0:46.9 | In last week's episode, Nina had several questions and I only got to the first one. So I'm going to |
| 0:52.3 | get to her other two questions in this episode. |
| 0:55.2 | Two really great topics that all parents will likely need to deal with at some point or another. |
| 1:00.8 | The first question about how not to raise a spoiled child, and the second about dealing with a |
| 1:06.9 | highly competitive child, so I'll get right to it. So as a refresher, Nina's email was short and to the |
| 1:14.4 | point. But for those who didn't listen last week or just as a reminder, here's the first part of it again. |
| 1:19.3 | I have been listening to your podcast for six months now and I just wanted to say thank you so |
| 1:23.5 | much for helping me understand and connect with my son. I have three questions. Okay, since I |
| 1:28.4 | answered the first one last week, I'm going to get right to number two, and that is, can you |
| 1:32.2 | give me some guide to raise an unspoiled child and tips on how to unspoil them when it's all |
| 1:37.6 | about me, me, me? Now, this has always been a big goal of mine as a parent, to raise children |
| 1:43.5 | who are kind, |
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