If you are a parent, you know that you want to provide for your kids and make sure they have everything that they need. Need is the key word here. Although you want your kids to be happy, it is important that you teach them some key things about their wants.
The first thing you must do is teach them that they can’t have everything they want, and below are three reasons why:
1. If you let them have everything they want, you are teaching them that in life you always get everything you want as soon as you want it. Obviously this cannot last forever. Once these kids grow up they are going to see that their every whim will not be satisfied, yet they will still expect this. The result will be unsatisfactory relationships and unrealistic expectations leading to a life full of disappointments and heartaches.