How to know whether I am giving too much attention to my child?
I have heard that getting too little attention from parents can result in personality disorders in adult life and getting too much attention from parents can result in child be an attention seeker as an adult.
My child is 7 years old.
What are the signs that a child is receiving too much attention from the parent with examples?
What does it even mean to give too much attention?
What can be done to prevent this situation or cure such situation?
Is there a good or bad attention? How to differentiate?
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Wikipedia lists the causes of attention-seeking in adults. Excessive parental attention in childhood is not one of them.
If anything, I would expect lack of attention to be a cause, as the child becomes desperate for attention and learns that the only way to get attention is to demand it. However this is a complicated issue. It also implies that the way you give attention is as important as the quantity.
Lack of attention would also seem likely to cause low self-esteem, which is listed as a cause of attention-seeking in adults.
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