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February 2008

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 Study VI: Childhood Overindulgence and Life Goals 

By participating in this 30 minute study, you will help us understand how childhood overindulgence relates to adult personality traits such as personal aspirations and attitudes about life. Participants will be informed of our research findings upon completion of this study through this newsletter and on the our research webpage. Click on this link to enter the study.

The New Me Generation By Jake Halpern

The crop of talented recent graduates coming into today's workforce is widely seen as narcissistic and entitled. And those are their best qualities. Nicole Mirabile, who is just 15 years old, has a clear vision of her future, and it doesn't involve a boss. The prospect of working at a Fortune 500 company – and landing the sort of well-paying job that Americans once regarded as the benchmark of success – holds zero allure for her. "It would be hard compromising with a lot of different people whom I might clash with," she speculates. To read more...
 

Talking about the 'Me' Generation By Jonathan Burton, MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- To believe the sober polls and somber press, today's young Americans are self-centered and coddled, tuned in to iTunes and tuned out to "I Give." If this wireless but disconnected group had a collective one-liner, it would be, "But enough about me. What do you think of me?" To read more...
 

Learn When Overindulging is just Too Much for Children by Betsy Flagler

This holiday season, do your kids a favor: Restrain yourself when it comes to shopping. Find a balance between the Grinch and Santa gone wild.

Giving your children too much actually hurts them over the long haul, says parenting educator Jean Illsley Clarke, one of three co-authors of a book on the effects of overindulgence, "How Much is Enough?" (Marlowe and Co., $14.95, 2003).

Here's one way to tell you have overindulged your child: Instead of thanks and joy, you get whining and demands for more. Often over indulgence can appear to meet a child's needs, but it does not. To read more...
 

How to Stop Spoiling Your Kids by Kristie Leong M.D.

It seems that the kids of today are more overindulged than ever. But childhood overindulgence has its price. By spoiling your kids, you give them a false sense of security. When they're older and have to provide for themselves, they may not have the skills and resources needed to rise to the challenge, if they've been overindulged throughout childhood. Your primary job as a parent should be to make sure your child is equipped to meet the challenges of independent living when he's older. To read more...

 

Materialism Linked to Self-esteem

U study finds link between materialism and self-esteem.

Peer pressure, targeted marketing campaigns, and bad parenting have all been blamed for increasing materialism in children. Until now, there has been little evidence showing when this drive for material goods emerges in kids and what really causes it. In one of the first studies to focus on the development of materialism among children, Deborah Roedder John, a professor of marketing at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management, reveals that a young person's level of materialism is directly connected to his or her self-esteem. To read more...
 

Thanks to Research Assistant Chelsae Armao who contributed by finding stories to include in this edition of the newsletter.

 

 

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