Raising Non-Entitled Children-Episode #735
Zen Pop
Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Cathy and Todd discuss entitlement and how to better relate and understand our kids. They talk about the importance of intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation, why it takes kids time to change their behavior, and how to avoid using shame when communicating family values. For the full show notes, visit zenpopparenting.com.
Timestamps
(00:00:00) Introduction
(00:03:37) Tournament of Bad- glasses/purse
(00:05:57) Get him a body bag *
(00:08:08) Entitlement
(00:09:55) Michigan Marching Band
(00:17:29) Examples of entitlement
(00:24:47) Intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation
(00:28:23) Grades
(00:35:14) When kids want things
(00:40:36) Controlling parents
(00:42:33) Conformity versus independence
(00:43:28) Two things blend in and stand out *
(00:44:55) Todd’s drinking
(00:47:14) Why kids get annoyed at parents *
(00:48:32) Household chores
(00:50:10) Making lunches
(00:54:39) Summary
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| 0:00.0 | Um, Todd, so do you think it's fair that every generation in some way gets called entitled? |
| 0:08.7 | Uh, do I think it's fair? |
| 0:11.6 | Um. Justified. Like, do you think? No, no, no. I have arguments with my friends about this all the time. |
| 0:16.9 | Yeah, me too. And it's interesting because these kids these days are entitled. Right. All that crap. You and I used to do shows a long time ago about how every generation, like we had like newspapers from like the 20s. |
| 0:28.3 | Yeah. And it said that the next generation was entitled. So it's kind of interesting to talk about. Yet at the same time, there are some things that we can do as far as talking with our kids and being |
| 0:39.2 | connected with our kids to decrease that entitlement that actually ends up harming them or |
| 0:44.1 | other people. |
| 0:45.0 | Let's talk about it. |
| 0:45.9 | Okay. |
| 0:51.1 | Do do do do do do do do do. |
| 0:52.5 | Here we go. |
| 0:53.1 | My name's Todd. |
| 0:53.9 | And this is Kathy. Welcome back to another episode of Zen Parenting Radio this is podcast number 735 that's all three odd numbers sweetie just so you know and I think three prime numbers seven three and five yeah I don't you know. The prime thing I don't care about. |
| 1:11.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:12.3 | Yeah, you don't like math. |
| 1:13.7 | Well, |
| 1:14.3 | if it wasn't for math, |
| 1:15.2 | we wouldn't have any buildings, sweetie. |
| 1:16.7 | I think it's a strong statement to say. |
| 1:18.2 | I'm not going to stay in here |
| 1:19.1 | and let you bad mouth the United States of America, |
| 1:21.6 | for goodness sake. |
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