Angry and alone

 

It is not enough to say you love a child. Your actions need to show the child what it needs to succeed.

A child is born ready to learn, wanting to learn, needing to learn.

A parent who spoils a child ruins its chances for a happy life and the older the child gets the harder life will become.

Even at the tender age of three, there are children whose parents have made life harder for them by not teaching them to listen and follow directions. And more than that, the child needs to know that it is always expected to do some things.

Of course children won't always follow directions or listen, but if they do it the majority of time they will learn that life is much more pleasant when they do.

In a room full of children all but one will use the potty, put on their training pants, or pull ups and then put their outer clothes back on so that they can go outside and play with all the other children. That one child, who has never been taught that there are rules and consequences, might spend all morning screaming and stomping around alone and angry because it refuses to do these simple things.

This is at age three. Imagine what this child will go through as it ages and the rules and consequences become greater and greater! In the end it will become an adult who cannot fit into civilized society. Angry and alone because it was never taught there are some rules everyone is expected to follow and the consequences for not following them will be harsher and harsher as they grow older.