Don’t feel disappointed when your child compares you to other parents
Your preschooler will occasionally insist that her friends’ parents allow them to do this or to buy them that, and you are stricter and meaner.
These comparisons drive you to distraction. You are also fed up with her constant questions: “Why can’t you be like my friend’s mum?” “Why do you not love me enough?”
You hate thinking that she feels that others have a better home life, and you feel sad she seems to rate other mothers more highly.
Don’t believe a word of it. Rest assured those supposedly wonderful, permissive, free-spending “friend’s mums” who apparently treat their five-year-olds like royalty are a figment of your child’s wishful thinking.
This is nothing more than a sign of her creative imagination. She mentions other mums to you for one purpose only – to make you change your mind.
This story is from the February 2018 edition of Young Parents Singapore.
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