The Lifeworks Group, Inc.

By: Dwight Bain, LMHC There is a disease affecting almost every child in America, and it can’t be treated at any hospital. The disease is Entitlement Thinking and it crosses into every corner of our country with the attitude of being served and being given more and more to create happiness. Entitlement is the belief that someone automatically deserves special privileges and special treatment and can be identified by one or all of the following symptoms - Signs of Entitlement Thinking:  ·           I want Everything now . ·           I don’t want to Work for it.   ·           I don’t have to clean up my Mistakes . ·           I want things because Everyone else has it.   ·           I expect someone else to Fix all my problems.   ...

Anyone who is a parent knows it is the hardest job out there.   Being in charge of another human is the most terrifying yet rewarding experience. From the time they are babies, parents are the sole provider for this tiny life that they have created.   Being able to care for and instruct one’s children is a blessing, yet in the same respect can be a trial.   Parents are the ones they look to for guidance, the ones in control and who have things under control.   Parents control what they eat, wear and do from an early age.   That is until they start realizing that they have the ability to say yes or no and start challenging their parents’ instructions and decision-making.   The average child’s frontal lobe does not develop until they are 25 years old, so it makes perfect sense that parents would want to remain in control of the decision-making process. Ultimately they are trying to prevent their kids from making mistakes that may alter their lives in a h...