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How to Say 'No to
Your Kids
Jean was
interviewed for this article in Newsweek |
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All I want: EVERYTHING!
By MARTHA SHERIDAN Staff Writer / The Dallas
Morning News
Giving presents to
children is a joy, but some adults give
until it hurts.
Kids make it clear when they've had too
much. On the first night of Hanukkah, a
4-year-old flings her book across the room
and declares that books make bad gifts. On
Christmas Day, a 3-year-old has a meltdown
in the middle of opening presents.
Such behavior
springs from being overwhelmed with too much
stuff, says parenting educator Jean Illsley
Clarke, Ph.D., of Minneapolis. "Children are
responding with their whole beings that this
is not as it should be, that this is too
much."
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