You are the kind of person who wants to be sure their children will never reach any goal in life.
Who cares about creativity, self-realization, and emotional safeness. All these theories about a better world are insane, you know. Why should you help your children be autonomous if your parents didnât care? When YOU were young, YOU didnât have all these possibilities.
Itâs time to sabotage your children, learn the foolproof method to make your childrenâs life a total failure:
#1 Deny your kidâs feelings
Think about the worst boss you had or that coworker you canât stand anymore.
Stop complaining: make your children feel lousy like you:
- Blame them often for what they do
- Give them tons of unsolicited advice on how they behave
- Call them a brat, and they will kick every possibility
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#2 Punish them
Donât know how to get your children to do 100 push-ups for the broken cup?
Apply all creativity to demoralize them so that they donât do the same. And anything else, of course:
- âStop drawing, instead wash the floorâ is a great starting point.
- âYou are my biggest failureâ too much? No, call them so, and they will make all the best to become it.
- âIâll take 10$ from your allowanceâ. âBut I donât have any!â. Never listen to their excuses.
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#3 Discourage independence and confidence.
Imagine your children could be famous: âThe worst worker in the companyâ âRecordman of layoffsâ.
Life sucks. Let them know as soon as possible:
- Never praise your children. You are allowed only to compliment them to make fun of them for the things they canât do
- Never ask their opinion. You can overmanage too much!
- Bullshit them for their struggle.
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DISCLAIMER: This guide is a joke.
If you want to break your childen, you can use this guide as it is.
But I warmly suggest you to do all the opposite and let your children just be themselves.
Life is beautiful. Help your children donât waste it.
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