Parents' focus on building self-esteem may neglect compassion for others:
By Susan Gregory Thomasmsnbc.com contributor
updated 8:53 a.m. ET, Wed., May 6, 2009
The little wagon seemed abandoned.
So when Ada Calhoon’s 1-year-old son spotted it during an outing to a neighborhood park, he began playing with it. But almost immediately, they heard a little boy on a far-away swing set shriek “Noooooooooooo!” sending his mom storming toward them.
“Rather than saying, ‘We’re swinging now. You can let that baby look at your wagon,’ [the mother] took the wagon out of my son’s hands and brought it to her son in the swing,” says Calhoun, the editor-in-chief of the popular parenting Web site Babble.com. It wasn’t the child’s fit that left Calhoun speechless: It was the mother’s.... Read the rest of the msnbc article here.
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que triste..made me think of 2 things: 1) How Chinese employers jump at the chance to hire young adults from families with 2+ children as opposed to 1 (not sure how that works...) and 2) an article in which a pediatrician/shrink basically encourages parents to inculcate manners to get what they want, i.e. get ahead in the world...so a big part of it seems to be no accountability /personal relationship w/ God so then people are "polite" but not truly polite : http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/health/13klas.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
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