When it pays to hold tough

Teaching children to postpone instant gratification benefits them says Helen O’Callaghan.

When it pays to hold tough

YOU know the line — “but everyone has one” — as your child is pleading for a mobile phone, TV in their bedroom, an iPod.

It’s not something you want to give at this stage, but neither do you want him to feel ‘different’. What do you do?

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