Did any of you catch the Newsweek article last Fall, titled, “The Power of NO”?  It addressed the problems today’s parents face with setting limits and providing appropriate discipline to children.  Successful parenting styles place limits on children’s behaviors because these limits give children a sense of safety and security.

The article discussed the problems parents face with giving their children too much too soon.  Families with 3- to 12-year olds spend $53.8 billion a year on entertainment, personal-care items and reading material for their children.  This is $17.6 billion more than parents spent in 1997.  That’s a lot of money!

Kids today want all the expensive brand-name products, which is in direct response to the waves of marketing that’s directed at them today.  So they apply the pressure to their parents who usually put in long hours of work and come ...   more »