Parenting: Avoid These Mistakes.
20 things you should never do to your kids
- Physically or emotionally abuse them
- Neglect their basic needs for food, shelter, clothing, and medical care
- Compare them to other children or siblings in a negative way
- Use them as a means to fulfill your own emotional or material needs
- Use them as a mediator for adult problems or conflicts
- Fail to set clear boundaries and rules
- Place unreasonable expectations on them
- Ridicule or belittle them for their mistakes or shortcomings
- Fail to acknowledge or validate their emotions
- Fail to provide them with love and support
- Force them to conform to rigid gender or cultural stereotypes
- Force them to conform to rigid gender or cultural stereotypes
- Allow them to engage in harmful or illegal behaviors
- Shame or guilt them into compliance
- Use them as a pawn in a divorce or custody battle
- Undermine their autonomy or self-esteem
- Ignore or minimize signs of mental illness or emotional distress
- Expose them to violent or inappropriate media or materials
- Pressure them to excel in areas they are not interested in
- Hold them to unrealistic academic or athletic expectations
- Refuse to admit and take responsibility for your mistakes as a parent.
20 things you should never do for your kids
- Solve all their problems for them
- Make all their decisions for them
- Protect them from all disappointment or failure
- Overindulge them with material possessions
- Bribe or reward them excessively
- Cater to their every demand or whim
- Shield them from the natural consequences of their actions
- Treat them as an extension of your own identity or ego
- Live vicariously through them
- Micromanage their every move or decision
- Hover over them excessively
- Speak for them when they are capable of speaking for themselves
- Overprotect them from normal life experiences and challenges
- Pressure them to pursue a career or life path that you want for
them
- Encourage them to be dishonest or manipulative to get what they want
- Show favoritism or preference for one child over another
- Use them as a tool to impress others
- Fail to provide them with opportunities for growth and development
- Fail to encourage their independence and autonomy
- Ignore their individual needs and personality, treating them as a one-size-fits-all entity.