Quotes from Richard Bromfield

Indulgence is a long-term process full of thousands of moments.

Taking care of your marriage and your partner is an act of love for your children.

Children who get and get no matter what tend to appreciate less.

Stop treating your child as royalty whose every want must be met. Teach your child to turn demands into polite requests.

Model the gratitude you want your children to show.

For most parents, the true thank-yous come much later.

Allowing children open access to every aspect of parents' lives can make for children who simply cannot bear the idea of their parents having experiences, relationships, and more that exclude them.

You deserve to have interests beyond your child.

Unspoiling will get easier and easier. You will get better at it and more comfortable with it. Your children will need to test it less and less.

Hardly last and supremely paramount, you deserve forgiveness, your own and the children's, for your inevitable moments of moodiness and impatience, for your mistakes and missteps, and for all that is part of the human condition that makes children and their behaviors forgivable.

Unspoiling is nothing more than the absence of spoiling.