No, We Won't Buy You a ...

Our main goal with our offspring was to end up with happy, healthy, self sufficient adults (so far, so good!). We can't tell anyone how to do this – everyone's different and Lord knows we made our share of mistakes along the way – but we can offer an insight that we've gained through our own offspring's transitions from childhood to adulthood.

Don't give kids everything they want, just everything they need.

A whole lot of what they want is stupid crap and they will never learn that it is... read more