Parenting Spoiled Children

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to my morning monologue.
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0:28.4	We wanted to talk about what will and will not spoil a child.
0:32.3	There are a lot of stupid people walking around the face of the earth one way or another
0:35.7	saying awfully dumb things, and one of the dumb things that stupid people walking around the face of the earth one way or another saying awfully dumb things. And one of the
0:37.6	dumb things that stupid people walking around the face of the earth oft say is that if you hug your
0:43.1	kid, kiss them, show much to affection, cuddle, you will spoil them even from infancy. These are
0:48.7	stupid people and you should never listen to them. Never listen to stupid stuff, okay?
0:54.7	And I'm telling you that is stupid stuff.
0:58.7	Don't calm them down.
1:01.0	Don't go in and pet them.
1:02.7	Don't go in and do anything.
1:03.9	Just let them be miserable.
1:06.2	Well, the truth is,
1:08.7	the first year of a human being's life, if they're not physically, emotionally
1:15.6	connected, so for all you mothers who used to dump them in daycare, shame on you, because it is
1:22.6	a developmental requirement for babies, especially in their first three years of life, I should say,
1:30.7	they need an attachment to their mom and dad in order to develop a secure connection to that
1:38.6	first social context family. That secure attachment implies that we are always going to react with some consistency.
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