The Dangers of an Entitlement Mentality
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 19 January 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Letting your child learn from his or her mistakes is one of the best gifts you can give as a parent. Spoiling them won't be good for their long-term maturity. John and Danny offer hope to parents who struggled with spoiling their kids as they were growing up. Featuring Kay Wyma.
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| 0:00.0 | As your kids grow up, one of the best gifts you can give is to let them learn from their mistakes. |
| 0:08.0 | It's not always easy, but if you're always trying to bail them out, that won't be good for the long-term maturity of that child. |
| 0:15.6 | I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Danny Werta, who heads up our parenting department here, |
| 0:20.2 | and we're going to hear now from Kay Weymah. |
| 0:23.0 | She talked with Jim Daly about how many kids struggle with an entitlement mentality |
| 0:29.1 | even as they enter into adulthood and it can be a problem. |
| 0:33.9 | Kate, welcome back to focus on the family. |
| 0:35.8 | Oh, it is always fun to be with you guys. |
| 0:38.3 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:39.2 | We enjoy it when you're here. |
| 0:41.0 | Where do you think this entitlement mentality comes from? What started it? Is it Adam |
| 0:46.3 | and Eve or did it come later? |
| 0:48.3 | Well, I think if you look back, just in our country alone, the entitlement really started in the 1940s when there was a very |
| 0:58.2 | well-meaning pediatrician who put to the forefront the best way to raise you to have your home is with a child-centric home. |
| 1:04.3 | Okay, so it started making us pave the path for the kid instead of the kid for the path. |
| 1:09.5 | And it's just progressively gotten worse because within the United States the American dream |
| 1:14.8 | we always thought the American dream was the opportunity to be able to come to this |
| 1:19.1 | country and do whatever you want and it's since changed a little and has turned to the words you're owed and you |
| 1:24.8 | deserve the dream and when it started to do that this issue of entitlement really |
| 1:30.2 | began to seep in and it's a lot of well-meaning, you know, loving families that are |
| 1:37.1 | buying into this message from society that says you have got to prepare the path for your |
| 1:41.4 | kid and not the kid for the path and thus the kid is groomed into thinking I do you I deserve it I owed these kinds of things and they don't even consider the fact that they could do it themselves. |
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