Why oh why do parents allow their children to interrupt phone calls or conversations? It is so frustrating to me to be talking to someone at the same time they are having a conversation with a demanding child. I know that no one wants children to “be seen and not heard”, but isn’t it just the right thing for a child to learn a few manners? I wouldn’t run up to people right in the middle of a conversation and blurt out what I wanted to talk about! Isn’t it our responsibility to teach our kids the same consideration? I believe parents must imagine that they are preserving the little ones self esteem, but I think the opposite is true. Allowing a little kid to always put their instant desires in ahead of everyone else has to create a self centered selfish child, not one full of self esteem. Come on! I’m tired of little kids running the show. It’s just not right, and the kids know it! Teaching children manners is our job! Out of control kids are pushing us to do it.
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The Diet Solution
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Hi Kristin,
It is a good question. We seem to have gone from one extreme to another, and neither is good. Somewhere in all of that we need to find a balance, and everyone becomes a winner. It is so much fun to be with children who share and work together. Children who only think of themselves are no fun to be with at all. And who wants that? No one!
Parenting is unrelenting and we get tired and frustrated and sometimes angry (and who knows what else, after all we’re human too). Effective parenting is hard work, it takes a lot of energy and self discipline, when we feel like it and when we don’t! But the rewards are absolutely wonderful.
I had a great time with my children as they were growing up, and now I’m starting the same process with my grandchildren.
Me too with my grandchildren! It’s the greatest and I’m happy to have them! They are delightful and I don’t have to do it all or be responsible for it all!