Kid Whisperer: How to erase ‘I can’t’ from your child’s vocabulary


By AGENCY
  • Family
  • Monday, 17 Mar 2025

When we do things for our kids that could be done by them, our kids learn that acting and being helpless get things done without any effort. — Dreamstime/TNS

Question: My 10-year-old acts like he can’t do anything. Yesterday he said, “I can’t open this,” handed me a box of cookies that a five-year-old could open and walked away and started watching TV. I know I’m messing up.

What do I do?

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