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Title: The Entitlement Trap: How to Rescue Your Child with a New Family System of Choosing, Earning and Ownership.
Author: Richard and Linda Eyre
Review: We have five wonderful children that are constantly asking for things and money. One wants the newest things out there, another wants every new Lego set on the market, another wants only the best clothes with the biggest names splashed across his chest, another doesn’t really care and the one and only girl wants craft items to make and play with everyday. Well this gets to be difficult and expensive. What do we buy and what don’t we buy? We do not believe in debt and so we honestly can’t buy much. I think because of this my kids would not feel entitled to everything they wish to have and yet almost every day I am surprised to learn that they still expect to have everything they want, and right now to boot.
This book really opened my eyes to why that is and what to do about it. How to teach our kids responsibility for their belonging and how to keep them for nickeling and diming us to death in the process is what this book is about. Every parent out there would find something in these pages that would help them raise their kids to appreciate the things they have while learning and gaining important values that we seem to forget in this fast paced get it now society we live in.
This really is a must read for parents, every parent, but especially parents drowning in their own kids requests and demands. What do kids really deserve? Well that is tough since I love my kids and want them to have more than I did, but is that going to help them in the long run? Read this book and I think you will see where you are going wrong and where you are going right. Entitlement is everywhere in today’s society and I hate to have my kids tell me ‘They deserve it.’ Bull no one deserves anything unless they earn it themselves by working hard and saving for it. What a great thing to teach kids and maybe someday the government will get the idea.
Publisher: Published September 6th 2011 by Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 228
ISBN: 9781583334157
Quick Review: 4 ½ Stars out of 5.
Why I Read it: It sounded like something my family could really use.
Synopsis: Parents complain about children growing up without responsibility—and then dole out huge hassle-free allowances. Linda and Richard Eyre's The Entitlement Trap is designed to bridge that logical chasm by instituting a family economy that will teach self-sufficiency instead of self-gratification. Initially your kids might groan that this system is demeaning, but according to the authors, they might thank you later. Think of it as an investment. 
Author Biography: As writers, lecturers, and grassroots and media catalysts, Linda and Richard Eyre's mission statement is: FORTIFY FAMILIES by Popularizing Parenting, Validating Values, and Bolstering Balance. Their latest efforts in these directions are their new books, The Happy Family (St. Martins Press,), Empty Nest Parenting (Bookcraft,) and The Book of Nurturing (McGraw Hill,), and their regular appearances on The CBS Early Show. Richard's new book, The Three Deceivers: How our obsessions with ownership, control and independence are ruining the quality of our lives will be published next year.
Richard is president of a management consulting company and a ranked senior tennis player. He was a "mission president" for his church in London, and a candidate for Governor of Utah.
Richard and Linda have nine children (one of every kind) and live in Washington, D.C. and Salt Lake City.
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I think I may go out and buy this one. Thanks for the review.
ReplyDeleteThis definitely seems like one that unfortunately is all too relevant today. It's hard to know where to draw the line, and I remember questioning at times how much is too much when my daughter was young.
ReplyDeleteYou wrote a great review on this one :)