The Entitlement Trap

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Linda and Richard Eyre have spent the last twenty-five years helping parents nurture strong, healthy families. Now they’ve created a “blueprint” for   instilling children with a sense of ownership, responsibility, and self-sufficiency. At the heart of their plan is the “Family Economy” complete with a family bank, checkbooks for kids, and a system of initiative-building responsibilities that teaches kids to earn money for the things they want. The motivation carries over to ownership of their own decisions, values, and goals. Anecdotal, time-tested, and gently humorous, The Entitlement Trap  challenges some of the sacred cows of parenting and replaces them with values that will save kids (and their parents) from a lifetime of dependence and disabling debt.

The Eyre’s say parents should:

1.) teach children how to work for what they want
2.) replace a child’s sense of entitlement with sense of ownership
3.) foster smart, economically-responsible children
4.) “unspoil” your children