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?
