2024-11-19
18 分钟Entitlement.
There I said it.
I was almost nervous to say that word.
I think it's the dirty word in parenting that we all kind of cringe.
I can't even tell you how often I hear parents say, Dr.
Becky, just how do I not have an entitled kid?
Please, anything but that.
Because I think we see this image of a kid who becomes older and doesn't really understand how to operate in the world.
Kind of doesn't understand that the world is not for their pleasure, that the world is hard,
the world has bumps, that no one's coming to smooth over those bumps for you.
It's about stepping over them, figuring out how to manage it.
And when I think about how much fear we have around this outcome,
it makes me come back to my very practical,
hopeful sense where I think, okay, wait, every parent I know wants to avoid having entitled kids.
Okay, well, I'm pretty sure we can do better than like crossing our fingers and just saying like,
oh, I hope, I hope that doesn't happen.
I believe we have agency here.
And so what I wanna talk about today is What we can be doing, day to day,
week to week, month to month, to make sure we don't raise kids who are entitled.
I'm Dr.