No parent fails to love their child, but during childhood, moderation and principles are essential. Parents must control their emotions, resisting momentary softness and pointless impulses.Some parents lack this sense of proportion, indulging their children excessively without boundaries. They condone unreasonable demands and misbehavior, focusing only on providing the best food and clothes while neglecting to cultivate independent, sound values. This inevitably spoils the child—such love is not only unhelpful but profoundly harmful.Are you practicing any of these dangerous forms of overindulgence with your child?
1. Doing Everything for Your Child
Parents who cater to every demand and complete all tasks for their child, leaving them never having to lift a finger, easily foster a spoiled and lazy personality. When I asked some mothers if they required their children to help with chores, some replied, "I can barely bear to see them hurt—how could I make them work?"Others say, "It's more trouble to ask the 'little one' to do things—better I just do it myself." So three- or four-year-olds still need to be fed and can't dress themselves, while five- or six-year-olds do no household chores and never learn the joy of labor or the responsibility of helping parents. Continuing this overprotection inevitably robs children of the chance to become diligent, kind, empathetic, capable, and ambitious individuals. This is no exaggeration.
2. Excessive Love and Attention
Maggie, a Canadian clinical psychologist,