Loving Your Child Too Much: Raise Your Kids Without Overindulging, Overprotecting or Overcontrolling

Top Highlights

“it’s important to remember that our children tune into our emotions and behaviors more than to our actual words.” (source)

“Emotion coaching is no different from the rest of parenting: your kids will learn much more from your actions than your words.” (source)

“to the strong-willed kid, punishment is better than enslavement. When” (source)

“If you were overcontrolled, you’ll tend to control; treated harshly, you will parent harshly; overprotected, you’ll protect too much; abused, you might abuse; overindulged, you’ll probably indulge.” (source)

“They call themselves active and involved parents, but they’re really just trying to relive their own childhood.” (source)