A child is usually his or her parents’ apple of the eye. When children are brought to this world, the parents stop, reflect and decide to change the course of their lives to give their offspring a better future. It is normal for a mother to never want to part from her child and to raise the same with the highest ideals. The father will also naturally want to give everything to his little bundle of joy.
Parents always wish to send their children to the best schools, clothe them with the best brands, buy them their Playstation or Nintendo Wii or iPod or iPhone even if somebody’s entire paycheck has to be blown on any of them. Parents can be irrational when it comes to showering their children with love and more often than not, this irrationality can bring about far-from-innocent consequences.
When children always get what they want, the importance of self-gratification is heightened and the reality that some things will not be good for them is never learned. Hence, when they want something, they’ll want it regardless of the consequences it may bring.
When raised by overindulgent parents, children tend to overindulge by themselves and if, by their teenage years, they start touching drugs, it could be very difficult to pull them out of the habit. Children who are not used to self-denial will find it hard to resist the temptation of drugs later on.
While it’s normal for a parent to want to give the world to his child, it’s essential that things are reined into their right perspectives. Even if it means refusing to take everyone to Disneyland this summer, it must be done because children need to know that there are things they will have to take a ‘no’ for and this is simply a fact of life they have to live with whether they like it or not.
Tags: spoiled kids, teen drug addiction
