#BigParentingIdea — Investing In Your Child Can Damage Your Relationship
To invest in something means ‘to spend or devote for future advantage or benefit’.
It means that we hope that the investment will bring us some kind of a dividend down the road.
Thus, thinking in terms of investing usually builds unhealthy expectations in a parent-child relationship.
Paying for our children’s education (no matter how expensive) doesn’t make us entitled to treat our children as our investment and dictate their future career or issue other demands.
Remove the word ‘investment’ from your parenting vocabulary. It adds zero value and can only corrode your relationship with your child.
If we change the language that we use to describe what we do for our children we will be much more supportive of their needs and care not (or less) about our own.
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