The Entitlement Trap

Dump the allowance-and use a new Family Economy to raise responsible children in an age of instant gratification. Number-one New York Times bestselling authors Richard and Linda Eyre have spent the last twenty-five years helping parents nurture strong healthy families. Now they've synthesized their vast experience in an essential blueprint to instilling children with a sense of ownership responsibility and self-sufficiency. At the heart of their plan is the Family Economy complete with a family bank checkbooks for kids and a system of initiative-building responsibilities that teaches kids to earn money for the things they want. The motivation carries over to ownership of their own decisions values and goals. Anecdotal time-tested and gently humorous The Entitlement Trap challenges some of the sacred cows of parenting and replaces them with values that will save kids (and their parents) from a lifetime of dependence and disabling debt.