Originally Posted by ColeCash

In general, too many parents make their children the entire focus of their lives. Although your children must feel that they are important they should never made to be feel they are better than anyone else. Kids today are being raised with feelings of entitlement that will only harm them in the real world. With an emotional ditsurbed child you have to try and help them cope while letting them no certain behaviours will not be tolerated by society.

This is what scares me, I am this kind of parent and have always put my child up in a pedestal. I am, however, a milder one since I don't actually go and say that she's better than anyone else, but what I do is that I always make it a point to see something special in what she does, what she says, how she looks.

Normally, one would think it's a good thing right?

Well, that's exactly what I thought! I felt as though praising her would boost her self-confidence, and make her believe she is a wonderful child with all of these wonderful attributes and talent, and lose her insecurities.
Well, the results of my actions have been nothing close to my expectations.

When my daughter started school, she had trouble interacting with others because everyone else simply did not go "Ooooh!" and "Aaaah!" at her or at whatever she was doing or did, and this seemed to confuse and disappoint her a whole lot that she refused to go to school for months.

Now she is 5 and very shy. I am trying to find ways and learn how to boost her confidence the right way this time, and undo my mistakes in the past.