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
here’s a few more:
9. Teach ’em to fight – everyone should be able to defend themselves
10. If they have a problem with a teacher/coach/friend/etc., they need to talk to the individual to try to resolve the problem first… if they are still having difficulty, then get involved.
11. if they sign up for something (sports, club, music, party, etc.) they need to see it through to the end – then they can decide if they want to do it again, next time.