file photo by Boyd Loving
Reader offers some more practical tips on how to raise a kid that won’t quit:
1. Keep Score in sports
2. Make them get a job that makes real money (from someone other than the parents) ASAP
3. Clean up after themselves
4. Earn perks – do your chores or you don’t get TV, phone, lessons, sports, to attend that party, etc… NO or very, very rare exceptions
5. Don’t buy them everything – they’ll figure out how to get it if it is really important to them
6.They must take care of/look out for/defend/protect siblings
7. Teach them to cook – they should always be able to feed themselves
8. Don’t be their friend, be their parent
