On the surface, it sounds deep - but deep down, it’s shallow
It strikes me that parents today are trying to show their love for their children by giving them stuff and trying to make everything easy for them. It sounds good on the surface, but it doesn’t build learning experiences, character and discipline. It just builds their sense of entitlement and sets them up to fail. I constantly see parents in competition with each other in terms of how much stuff their children have as a barometer of “success”.
It’s better to spend time with your children colouring with crayons or taking a walk in the woods. My mother wouldn’t buy stuff for us but if we wanted to learn something, she’d bend over backwards to find the money.
