I have heard from some people you can "spoil" a child from others you can't "spoil" what to you think?

Answer 1

I don't think you can spoil an infant, but you can spoil a child. A child who is given too much of material things or not enough discipline becomes spoiled. However, you cannot spoil your child with attention. If your child needs you, day or night, being with him is not spoiling him. Giving in to every desire for candy or toys is spoiling. Giving in to every desire for hugs, kisses, talks, cuddles, and storytime is not spoiling.

Answer 2

Oh you can definitely spoil a child. Infants no but when an older child begins to feel that they are "owed" things simply by being or that the rules that the rest of the world lives by don't apply to them they're definitely spoiled.

Answer 3

i believe that spoiling should be a way to show extra love and attention when deserved...it should be a reward that goes beyond what you would normally reward, but only given when rightly deserved...there's nothing wrong in spoiling a child as long as, as they get older, they realize that you're spoiling them because they did something good or right...there's nothing wrong as long as you're not rewarding them for being bad...that's where spoiling gets out of hand and you lose the respect of your child...

there's nothing wrong in giving a kid an extra piece of candy or letting them stay up an hour longer one night b/c the movie ran over or they have friends over...or taking them shopping on a regular day...just as long as they don't "take the mile" and still conserve the respect u deserve and the right attitude...and as long as they maintain respect for others...they must also realize that there's a time when you're going to say "no" and they need to know that if they react out of control then the next time they get nothing...

it's all how u raise your child...if u raise them to respect you, then when u spoil them, it's just another form of love...just make sure that U don't let it get out of hand and that they still know who's boss...

Answer 4

You can spoil any child by giving them every little thing they ask for and not making them earn or work for it. It makes it harder on them later in life when they have to learn they don't get everything just because they ask. Even newborns get spoiled with constant holding.

Answer 5

You cant spoil a newborn but an older child can be spoiled.

Answer 6

What do think of a child that talks back to its parents, throws temper tantrums in public, doesn't play nicely with other kids, is physically abusive with other kids, basically has no discipline? Spoiled.....do the math.

Answer 7

Yes you can definantely spoil them. When they start getting on your nerves you know its time to start scaling back. I mean this mostly with buying them things. I don't think you can spoil them with to many kisses or hugs, or anything like that. My son is 6 years old and when he started telling me what I was going to do for him like buy him another toy or I was going to take him somewhere, it really made me look at things. He started to expect things and not appreciative of the things he was getting

Answer 8

I think until they're about two years old, you can't spoil a child. Once they have the intellectual ability to manipulate you, then you have to start creating boundaries with them.

Answer 9

you can't spoil a child with love, only substitutes for love

Answer 10

YES A CHILD CAN DEFINITELY BE SPOILED. BELIEVE IT OR NOT, A BABY KNOWS WHEN THEY ARE GETTING OVER ON THEIR PARENTS.