5 things Parents need to know P. 5

 

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Parents should be on Alert Part 1

In light of our upcoming conference I am going to give you a sneak peek of some of the things we will be covering. So here is a 5 part series, one point each day over the next week 

 

 

5. The Attitude of Entitlement

Most of us had to work hard for what we have. And if we got in trouble growing up, our parents allowed us to face the consequences rather than rescuing us or blaming our authorities. Thats not the case anymore… talk to a teacher sometime and they will be quick to point out that parents today blame the school, the teacher, the other kids, and the principal etc… but never blame their kids. It’s not their fault that they are lazy and fail and get kicked out of class. 

 

I thought that people were supposed to be dependable, responsible, respectful, hardworking and disciplined. However, one of the great threats to kids today is the mindset that the world owes them something. A recent survey of school counselors said “entitlement mentality” is one of the top five problems young people have today.

 

now Listen to this and understand that it is from an article written in 2011 Thats 11 years ago. 

Children in the most recent generation of adults born between 1982 and 1995, known as “Generation Y,” were raised to believe that it is their right to have everything given to them more than any other previous generation. Between 1979 and 1984, the Public Relations Society of America conducted a series of surveys on the American public to determine whether or not there was a growing trend of entitlement being spread throughout popular opinion. The results showed that indeed a trend had sprouted within society that more and more citizens were beginning to expect institutions to provide for them rather than providing for themselves. The reports detailed that “expectations beginning to surface at the time might have a moderating influence on entitlement attitudes [in the future].” This was a scary idea for the American people (Detweiler, 1986).

 

So do you think things have gotten better? Ha! My grandson just got a participation trophy, I will break it to him that it means nothing… but he will know he is loved and he will learn that things that get done, people that change history, individuals who are successful are graded, judged and held accountable. 

 

With these threats and others facing our children, what is a parent to do? Well, act now 

 

They should have an allowance tied to responsibilities.

You don’t just get an allowance, you get an allowance for doing your job. I understood at an early age my Dad and Mom had to pay the house payment, the car payment, the grocery bill etc… and they would tell me how much it was… they explained to me my job was to pay the garbage bill which was take the garbage out on Mondays, pay the car vacuum bill which was wash and vacuum the car, pay the clean room bill… ok, i think you get it. But I didn’t just get an allowance for being their son… there was no participation allowance. 

 

Teach them how to save and spend.

They should have a job in high school and again buy some of their own things. My parents when I was growing up would match everything I saved in the bank… why? They wanted me to learn to save more than $50 at a time and wanted me to start to understand compound interest. Yes, it was way beyond normal compound interest, but as a teenager it still made sense to me and I got it. In fact I don’t think I would have ever learned to save hundreds of dollars unless my parents matched it… it worked. 

 

last but not least…Purposefully talk with your children about these issues and the threats they pose. Ask them, do you know of friends or kids at school that have this mindset? Do you think it will help or hinder them in the future? Next ask them to do a little research on great people of success and find out if they had a mindset of entitlement? They will quickly find out that most had just the opposite and had the mindset of “responsibility to the highest degree”. 

 

Now is the time to pray for God’s guidance to wisely navigate these threats that your children are sure to face.