How to Unspoil Your Child Fast Quotes

“Unspoiling is nothing more than the absence of spoiling.”
― Richard Bromfield, How to Unspoil Your Child Fast: A Speedy, Complete Guide to Contented Children and Happy Parents

“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.”
― Richard Bromfield, How to Unspoil Your Child Fast: A Speedy, Complete Guide to Contented Children and Happy Parents

“You deserve to have interests beyond your child.”
― Richard Bromfield, How to Unspoil Your Child Fast: A Speedy, Complete Guide to Contented Children and Happy Parents

“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.”
― Richard Bromfield, How to Unspoil Your Child Fast: A Speedy, Complete Guide to Contented Children and Happy Parents

“For most parents, the true thank-yous come much later.”
― Richard Bromfield, How to Unspoil Your Child Fast: A Speedy, Complete Guide to Contented Children and Happy Parents

“Model the gratitude you want your children to show.”
― Richard Bromfield, How to Unspoil Your Child Fast: A Speedy, Complete Guide to Contented Children and Happy Parents

“Children who get and get no matter what tend to appreciate less.”
― Richard Bromfield, How to Unspoil Your Child Fast: A Speedy, Complete Guide to Contented Children and Happy Parents

“Taking care of your marriage and your partner is an act of love for your children.”
― Richard Bromfield, How to Unspoil Your Child Fast: A Speedy, Complete Guide to Contented Children and Happy Parents

“Indulgence is a long-term process full of thousands of moments.”
― Richard Bromfield, How to Unspoil Your Child Fast: A Speedy, Complete Guide to Contented Children and Happy Parents

“It is never too late to start watching the examples that we set and change them when warranted.”
― Richard Bromfield, How to Unspoil Your Child Fast: A Speedy, Complete Guide to Contented Children and Happy Parents

“Giving children too much, today and tomorrow, can deprive them of more precious and profound gifts, such as patience, contentment, consideration, and other skills that help make for a rich, successful, and fulfilled existence.”
― Richard Bromfield, How to Unspoil Your Child Fast: A Speedy, Complete Guide to Contented Children and Happy Parents

“The more stuff a child gets in December, the less stuff the child will remember having gotten by January.”
― Richard Bromfield, How to Unspoil Your Child Fast: A Speedy, Complete Guide to Contented Children and Happy Parents

“Following through and establishing a baseline of unspoiling takes more work than does maintaining it.”
― Richard Bromfield, How to Unspoil Your Child Fast: A Speedy, Complete Guide to Contented Children and Happy Parents

“Nowhere is follow-through needed more than in your parenting.”
― Richard Bromfield, How to Unspoil Your Child Fast: A Speedy, Complete Guide to Contented Children and Happy Parents

“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.”
― Richard Bromfield, How to Unspoil Your Child Fast: A Speedy, Complete Guide to Contented Children and Happy Parents

“Unspoiling is not about dwelling on the past—it’s about focusing on your child’s future.”
― Richard Bromfield, How to Unspoil Your Child Fast: A Speedy, Complete Guide to Contented Children and Happy Parents

“Stop treating your child as royalty whose every want must be met. Teach your child to turn demands into polite requests.”
― Richard Bromfield, How to Unspoil Your Child Fast: A Speedy, Complete Guide to Contented Children and Happy Parents

“Practice telling your child your expectations and wishes in statements that declare rather than ask.”
― Richard Bromfield, How to Unspoil Your Child Fast: A Speedy, Complete Guide to Contented Children and Happy Parents

“Imagine yourself a teacher with your child in your classroom. Try emulating a teacher’s clarity, directness, and expectations for an hour or so, and see what happens.”
― Richard Bromfield, How to Unspoil Your Child Fast: A Speedy, Complete Guide to Contented Children and Happy Parents

“Today’s parents tend to be uncomfortable with their authority.”
― Richard Bromfield, How to Unspoil Your Child Fast: A Speedy, Complete Guide to Contented Children and Happy Parents

“It doesn’t matter what kinds of limits or consequences parents establish. All that matters is that parents back their words up with action and hold fast.”
― Richard Bromfield, How to Unspoil Your Child Fast: A Speedy, Complete Guide to Contented Children and Happy Parents

“If you have no control over your child at home, and yet she behaves very well at school and in other people’s homes, take heart. This is a common situation, and one that is better than many other possibilities.”
― Richard Bromfield, How to Unspoil Your Child Fast: A Speedy, Complete Guide to Contented Children and Happy Parents

“The child who knows his parents have sturdy end stops will not have to push and test to find the limits and boundaries.”
― Richard Bromfield, How to Unspoil Your Child Fast: A Speedy, Complete Guide to Contented Children and Happy Parents

“Tantrums should become less frequent as you proceed through unspoiling. However, they might become more intense for a short while.”
― Richard Bromfield, How to Unspoil Your Child Fast: A Speedy, Complete Guide to Contented Children and Happy Parents

“Being an unspoiling parent is a lot of work. But it is a small price to pay for an unspoiled child.”
― Richard Bromfield, How to Unspoil Your Child Fast: A Speedy, Complete Guide to Contented Children and Happy Parents

“Give your child a consequence that is meaningful to him or her.”
― Richard Bromfield, How to Unspoil Your Child Fast: A Speedy, Complete Guide to Contented Children and Happy Parents

“Whatever you do, do not back down.”
― Richard Bromfield, How to Unspoil Your Child Fast: A Speedy, Complete Guide to Contented Children and Happy Parents

“Commit to unspoiling your child, and your child will follow.”
― Richard Bromfield, How to Unspoil Your Child Fast: A Speedy, Complete Guide to Contented Children and Happy Parents

“A child learns gratitude by not getting everything she wants. A child learns patience by waiting. A child learns generosity by sharing and giving. A child learns self-control by having to control herself. And above all, she learns contentment by not being trained to always need more and faster.”
― Richard Bromfield, How to Unspoil Your Child Fast: A Speedy, Complete Guide to Contented Children and Happy Parents

“A child who perpetually pesters her parents is still searching for the limits she needs to grow straight. Her demanding and disruptive behavior is, to a great degree, meant to test you, to find out what outrageous action will finally get you to react—constructively.”
― Richard Bromfield, How to Unspoil Your Child Fast: A Speedy, Complete Guide to Contented Children and Happy Parents