Parenting: Dr Phil on Saying No!

I watched Dr Phil on Monday for the first time, which my wife loves. I often get a call at work at lunch time with a not so consise precis of what the show was about. Apparently he like me has two boys six years apart and takes them both Scuba Diving - what can I say but...the man has made it!

Anyway the show was on spoiled kids - kids that had their parents go into debt to buy cars etc. One 11 year old was insisting that her family buy a private jet! All were influenced by the media and role models like Jessica Simpson and Paris Hilton. They think that they are entiled to the same life-style.

Its so easy to get into a cycle of buying kids what they want...even if it is lollies everytime you go to the shop. But as Dr Phil points out the fualt lies with the parents.

When when a kids keeps pressuring a parent to buy things a parent has to learn not just to say "No!" - but "HELL NO !!!""...

I think the man has a point.