Parents should stop spoiling their kids

Related: http://preschooler.thebump.com/longterm-effects-spoiling-children-8288.html

Basically this article is regarding Honk Kong, that more and more kids are being spoiled by their parents. Is it only happening in Hong Kong? I believe most of the younger generation of children in Singapore are also being spoiled by their parents starting at a very young age.

Parents must know where to draw the line between giving what the child needs and not what the child wants. Parents should also be clear in giving their  care, love and concern to their child, not giving in to all the demand. Yes, being more affluent means buying better toys for the child but is that necessary? Will the child be playing that forever.

The most precious gift parents can give their child is the correct values to guide them to be an upright person when they grow up. In Singapore, due to the high costs of living, for most Singaporeans to have a child means both parents would have to go out and work in order to support the family and the responsibility of taking care of the child lies in the hands of the domestic helper. That also implies that the time spent with the child is very limited, and so to make up for that, parents buy branded items, good food and  anything their child wants to “appease” them.

This would then lead to the child having the wrong mind-set that they can get whatever they want which is not true in society and by then they would suffer because not all things will go in the way as they wanted and not always people would give in to their demand. Therefore I personally think and fully agree that parents should stop spoiling their kids.

Similarly when you become a parent don’t spoil your kid/s 😉