Yet, as children are going to learn sooner or later, the adult world just doesn’t work that way. To prepare your children for that real world, teach them that sometimes they just have to suck it up! Part of being a responsible adult is accepting that there are a lot of things in life that we don’t care to do, but we do them anyway because we have to. How often do you do things for your children that you would really rather not? I’ll bet you just love taking your children to their music lesson at the end of a long day or to a soccer tournament two hundred miles from home on a weekend. Of course you don’t, but you suck it up and do it because that’s part of the job of being a parent. Your children need to learn that they too have a job to do and life, now and in adulthood, often involves doing things that they don’t want to do. If they have to do it, why not just suck it up and do the best they can?

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