Parenting Today: Parents Make Children “Princes and Princesses”

Created: 08/09/2022, 12:00 p.m

By: Judith Brown

Are parents spoiling their kids too much these days?

One educator sees this as the reason for the lack of real self-confidence.

“Becoming a parent is not difficult, but being a parent is very difficult”: This well-known proverb by Wilhelm Busch is probably more relevant today than ever.

After all, many parents simply feel overwhelmed with the upbringing of their offspring.

They often mean well with their children and remove all obstacles from their path.

However, experts agree that they harm the little ones.

Also educationalist Dr.

Albert Wunsch is convinced of this.

In his opinion, parents take too much from their children and make it too easy for them.

He mainly refers to observations from his work at schools, universities and with families in his practice.

Parenting Today: Parents Make Children “Princes and Princesses”

Because of their upbringing, children nowadays increasingly believe that they are “the navel of the world”, according to one educationalist.

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"Today there are many princes and princesses in a first class who all think they are the center of the world," the teacher was quoted as saying in an interview with

.

The consequences of this upbringing are fatal.

He notes that "the children today have a fairly low stamina, give up quickly and are hardly resilient".

They do have an exaggerated self-confidence.

However, this would overestimate the children.

They “imagine they can do an incredible amount, which is not true.

And that of course means that they are not well prepared for the challenges of life,” says Wunsch.

Children only develop real self-confidence through independence, "through real abilities and skills that the child acquires through practice".

However, when so-called lawnmower parents remove all obstacles from their path, protect them from conflicts and take care of many things for them, children do not learn to deal with the challenges of life.

The consequences of this can extend into adulthood.

The educator criticizes, for example, that parents put their children's shoes on, spread their bread or drive them to school.

"This prevents independence."

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Parenting: "Parents too often see their children as their big project," warns an educator

In his opinion, the trend that Wunsch describes here is due to the fact that parents nowadays too often regard their children as “their big project”.

"As little supermen and superwomen" by which they want to define themselves.

"That's why children today get too much attention, which isn't good for them and which leads to them developing an exaggerated 'I'," is the thesis of the educational expert.

In his opinion, parents would over-praise their children.

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According to Wunsch, the fact that parents take a lot off their children's shoulders is for a banal reason: "Because it's faster that way." However, fathers and mothers would also like to prove themselves and show that they are there for their children.

Although they mostly want the best for their offspring, their behavior can ultimately have a negative impact on the little ones.

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