Lydia’s Reviews > The Myth of the Spoiled Child: Coddled Kids, Helicopter Parents, and Other Phony Crises > Status Update

moral development vs eliciting compliance; the center of gravity is outside the child without any respect for their needs and interest; the idea that the best preparation for future unpleasantness is the subjection to unpleasantness while they are small; we are *not* overly inclined to listen to our children't point of view