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"Our children and grandchildren are growing up in a child-oriented culture. It’s a culture that caters to kids. A culture that says your job as a parent is to make sure your child is always happy."

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Quit Doing These 8 Things for Your Teen This School Year if You Want to Raise an Adult

5. Making their failure to plan your emergency

School projects do not get assigned the night before they are due. Therefore, I do not run out and pick up materials at the last minute to get a project finished. I do always keep poster boards and general materials on hand for the procrastinating child. But, other needed items, you may have to wait for. Do not race to Michaels for your kid who hasn’t taken time to plan.

This is a good topic to talk about in weekly family meetings. Does anyone have projects coming up that they’re going to need supplies for so that I can pick them up at my convenience this week?

6. Doing all of their laundry

“What? YOU didn’t get my shorts washed? This response always backfires on the kid who may lose their mind thinking that I’m the only one who can do laundry around here. Every once in a while a child needs a healthy reminder that I do not work for them. The minute they assume that this is my main role in life is the minute that I gladly hand over the laundry task to them.

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Most days I do the washing and the kids fold and put their clothes away, but they are capable of tackling the entire process when need be.

Amy Carney
Amy Carneyhttp://amycarney.com
A former sports journalist and editor, Amy Carney currently writes on her blog www.amycarney.com as well as for various online and print outlets about intentional parenting and family life. Amy and her husband, Keith, are busy raising teenage triplet sons, a subsequent teen daughter and a son they adopted from foster care.

WATCH: Bride Gets Wedding Day Letter From Her Dad 20 Years After His Death

On Freya's wedding day, at the time when the father of the bride traditionally gives a speech, Freya's mother stood up and read the handwritten card from her dad.

How To Raise Thankful Kids in an Entitled Culture

"Our children and grandchildren are growing up in a child-oriented culture. It’s a culture that caters to kids. A culture that says your job as a parent is to make sure your child is always happy."

Garbage Men Wave to 3 Girls in the Window Every Week—When 1 is Gone, They Leave This Letter

"I read the note and was in near tears. Being a father, it's scary to think, 'What if it were me in that situation?'"