Life is not easy for today’s parents. The main difficulty they face is having to devote many hours to work and little time for their children, so they may experience a gap that they sometimes try to fill incorrectly. From this crossroads, rich child syndrome may arise. Consider.
This syndrome not only affects children who grow up in a family full of money, it is a phenomenon that affects both children from wealthy and middle-class families. The rich child is due to the characteristics of creation, not the financial issue.
- Don’t educate your child to be rich.
- Educate to be happy.
- When you’re older.
- Will you know the value of things.
- Not their price?.
- – Anonymous-.
Rich child syndrome is also known as “ricopathy. “It is linked to the spoiled and spoiled child, the result of an education based on excess. Therefore, this syndrome is not a condition associated with social class, but rather the type of education and relationship that parents establish with their children.
Rich child syndrome is defined as the set of disorders that occur in a child when he or she is overuse, in fact not everything. Specifically, everything?, they ask. In addition, what children want is also what parents give themselves: privileges, access to additional learnings, and experiences they believe can make them better children.
The case is that the behavior of parents, overprotective or facilitator of excessive material goods, causes problems and difficulties in the emotional development of their children.
Ralph Minear, a professor of pediatrics at Harvard University, asks a series of questions to assess whether a child is educated in rich child syndrome:
If you answer, yes? One of these questions is likely to educate the child to develop rich child syndrome, which is mostly because parents don’t have enough availability for their children. Lack is to give them an excess of freedom, relax the rules and suffocate them with objects and experiences. Do you think you’re giving your child a better life?The one I had, and who prepares them to be?Other.
Most of these parents say they do nothing but work to be able to offer their children a life full of comforts, they assume that’s what children want: expensive objects, few limits and many activities scheduled to pass the time. the better a human being is, the happier he is. On the other hand, any unfulfilled desire, all emptiness, for them amounts to suffering and unhappiness.
These parents also want to put their children on the path to total success as quickly as possible, they want to train them to be above average. That’s why they enroll them in a large number of extracurricular courses and activities, they don’t allow children to discover their tastes and abilities for themselves and develop them naturally, so children have access to the adult world from an early age.
In the end, however, they do not find this child happy and fully realized, but an dissatisfied, unhappy and rebellious child, with a weak and at the same time stubborn personality.
Today’s children are no different from the past, at the bottom of their heart they always have the same needs as children of 20 years ago, they want to play, they want to laugh, they want to interact with nature, with animals, above all. , they want to be loved. The presence of their parents gives them an irreplaceable confidence and a sense of well-being.
Some parents don’t understand why their child is sometimes so frustrated and upset, often sick, or develops certain phobias. They have good intentions, but they don’t see the difference between supporting a child to help him realize his full potential and pleasing and putting pressure on them.
Pediatrician Ralph Minear shares five tips for educating children who deserve to be taken into account:
It is important to understand that a child’s healthy development depends to a large extent on a balance between satisfied desires and frustrations, between the achievements of personal freedom and the limits imposed by reality. A good creation is based on authentic love, capable of teaching a child to value each object and, with it, every experience.
Images courtesy of Shiori Matsumoto.