14 - Absent Parents Equate Gifts to Love

I'm Bill Corbett, author of the book love, limits, & lessons, a parent’s guide to raising cooperative kids.  Thanks for downloading and listening to this podcast. Author, educator and professional speaker, Dan Blanchard stopped by my studio the other day and we found ourselves talking about how some parents equate love to buying things for their kids. The holidays are getting closer and we’ve both seen absent parents swooping in to shower their children with all sorts of gifts and presents, and then swooping back out to being invisible again. These kinds of parents find it difficult to make the experience of being with their children and listening, the real gift.

Our hope for this episode is that some absent and busy parents might hear our conversation and then make the decision to buy less and be 100% present more. Adults might think that their kids want the gifts and money more, but what they really want is a parent’s silent attention, their smile, their confirmation that they hear them and their loving interaction.

Thank you for listening to the CREATING COOPERATIVE KIDS podcast series.  To get Dan’s latest book, look up THE STORM: How Young Men Become Good Men. If you would like more help with discipline and parenting, please visit my website, www.cooperativekids.com or email me at bill@cooperativekids.com.  Making the world a better place to live begins by using a style of discipline that not only creates more cooperation today, but also helps our children eventually find their purpose in life, on schedule.  All information on this recording is the property of Bill Corbett and Cooperative Kids.  Copyright 2022,  Cooperative kids publishing