UNITED STATES—Question America: how do you prevent a parent from creating a spoiled brat? What is a spoiled brat? A person who thinks they’re supposed to get whatever they want without any pushback. I feel like in today’s society we are creating more and more spoiled brats and it’s a direct result of social media.
The internet has created these little monsters at early ages that become full-blown monsters by the time they enter adulthood. It is very difficult to stop bratty behavior syndrome once it has already been instilled in them. This is a direct result of parenting. The parents are key to some of the behaviors their children ultimately develop. How so?
Failure to properly parent their children and relying on others to do it. You cannot be your child’s best friend. That is the first problem: you are the parent, so you need to act like it and not allow the child to dictate what he or she wants. Too many parents give in because they don’t want to deal with a whiny, arrogant or just a flippant child.
Yes, a child throwing a tantrum in public is not a good thing; it can be embarrassing; trust me I know. However, by allowing that child to throw the tantrum you are teaching them you’re not always going to get your way. That is how life unfolds; we don’t always get what we want, and we have to navigate paths where such things of this matter unfold. You don’t get the dream house, the car, the girl, the guy, the job and so many other things.
We figure out how to navigate life based on the hand of cards we are dealt. When as a parent, you don’t teach your children responsibilities they grow up to be brats in my opinion. How so? They don’t know what it means to pay a bill, they don’t know what it means to have things you MUST DO, not things you WANT TO DO. I know spoiled brats, my youngest brother being one, who lives with his parents still and pays not a single household expense. Doesn’t clean, doesn’t cook, doesn’t take out trash and so much more.
It is infuriating because I’m like to my parents, “What are you doing?” Look at him, this is why he behaves the way that he does1 HE KNOWS NO RESPONSIBILITY AT ALL AND YOU’RE NOT FORCING IT ON HIM! The moment he has a bit of responsibility he doesn’t know how to respond or do anything. I’m like, don’t come to me, grow the hell up. It’s long overdue. Too many brats are being developed in this world, and those brats are creating brats and that cycle just continues and continues.
We need to break it, we need to instill the importance of responsibility so that adults understand adulting is not a bad thing, that is a part of life. Do you want to listen to a whiny adult? I don’t, so let’s teach our kids now so they are prepared later.
