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When the Brat Grows Up

To rely the actual discussion would sound like fiction.   This is because one could not believe a grown man, a man in his forties could view the world in such a jaundiced fashion.

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Yes, a little kid can say; “The chair did it…”   or  “It wasn’t my fault that the dog ate my dinner” because a child doesn’t possess that step up to logic to recognising the existence of other people.

To be blunt, a child, a young child, may not understand that when he is in  room with ten people and walks out, those ten people still exist independent of him.

When a man is forty one expects adult behaviour. In many places a man of twenty is expected to show proper judgement. If a child is properly raised, he shows mature judgement at sixteen.

The child who is spoiled, pandered to, will never grow up. He will expect Mommy and Daddy and everyone else to do what he wants when he wants it. He takes it as a threat, a direct attack, when someone acts on their own volition, does not ‘obey’ him, does not conform to his beliefs.

That he can make one statement at six p.m. and another at eight p.m. is not seen by him as contrary or illogical, but as the decree of a king. And a King can change his mind, for he has authority. Everyone else is a vassal who does not have the right to ever contradict him, to ever commit ‘treason’.

These Brats grow up to make a botch of their lives. Yes, if Daddy can buy the world for him, if he has enough money to buy his minions, then he can continue on and on until the moment he can’t buy, he can’t command. And then he starts flinging the toys out of the pram.

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The Brat never sees his mistakes.  The Brat never recognises that it is his fault. People exist in the world to be of use to him and he will use them as long as he has use for them then throw them away when he no longer finds them useful.

This is why wise parents, good parents, strive not to raise a child to believe he is entitled.

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Written by jaylar

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