tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055330933900013377.post8718770630142186760..comments2024-03-12T00:33:24.839-07:00Comments on Homemaking on the Homestead: Raising Children without a Sense of Entitlement Crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00621490444516696992noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055330933900013377.post-21125985029869824472017-06-16T11:15:40.382-07:002017-06-16T11:15:40.382-07:00Thank you! I very much enjoyed this post and I abs...Thank you! I very much enjoyed this post and I absolutely adore your blog. Your recipes have fed my family many, many times as well. Thank you for taking the time to blog. I know you help many families just like mine and I am so grateful! :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055330933900013377.post-16183184248062110952017-06-13T18:00:02.879-07:002017-06-13T18:00:02.879-07:00Love what you say here.. and completely agree wit...Love what you say here.. and completely agree with you!! We had only a handful of vacations with our children throughout the years of raising them.. and to this day they each happily remember each of them.. many good memories were made.. anything in life can be overdone. And I had a childhood just as you said.. playing with friends.. riding bikes, and yes, sometimes we were bored.. but we figured out what to do.. and had a whole lot of fun. When my grandkids get bored.. I tell my children.. it's alright for them to be bored.. that is when the best of their imagination can really start to kick in.. Thank you for your comment.. I really enjoyed reading it. Crystalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00621490444516696992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055330933900013377.post-2473387726904766662017-06-13T10:04:54.465-07:002017-06-13T10:04:54.465-07:00I do agree with you, so many kids today are given ...I do agree with you, so many kids today are given so much by their parents and are rarely told no. I think it is a chain reaction thing because no parent wants to be the one to deny their kids something when all their friends get it. Where we live, there seems to be a lot of pressure to give your kids experiences. It is common for families to go out of town every weekend "for the kids". Hiking trips, camping, trips to the city, etc. I don't know how these families can afford such busy weekends all the time. Occasionally I feel bad because we are not doing such exciting things all the time but then I remind myself that our daughter is perfectly capable of entertaining herself while her peers just sit around complaining that they are bored. If their parents aren't actively ensuring they are entertained, they don't know what to do with themselves! In my day, such a vacation was once a year and my parents saved all year for it. It always made that annual trip so exciting for us! My friend, who is always complaining about not having money, once told me that their weekend jaunts cost between $500-$800. She truly does not see the correlation between these expensive weekends and being broke all the time because "everybody does it". I personally think that adults nowadays are too worried about what everyone will think if they don't post all the exciting things they did over the weekend on Facebook. Heaven forbid a family spends the weekend relaxing at home together. How embarrassing would that be? Families can now post what they are doing, at the exact moment they are doing it, for everyone to see. Keeping up with the Jones' has gone digital and I definitely don't think there is a benefit to it. I believe that filling a child's weekend with fun, out of town trips all of the time also sets up unrealistic expectations that this is what weekends should be like. When I was a kid, my parents shooed us out the door to go play with our friends. They did not try to dazzle us with weekends filled with fun and instead we played kickball, caught frogs and turtles, climbed trees, and sometimes we just were bored. Not worth posting on any social media sites to be certain, but I loved it! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com