• The Me, Me, Me Epidemic

  • A Step-by-Step Guide to Raising Capable, Grateful Kids in an Over-Entitled World
  • By: Amy McCready
  • Narrated by: Margaret Strom
  • Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (128 ratings)

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The Me, Me, Me Epidemic

By: Amy McCready
Narrated by: Margaret Strom
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Publisher's summary

Whenever Amy McCready mentions the "entitlement epidemic" to a group of parents, she is inevitably met with eye rolls, nodding heads, and loaded comments about affected children. It seems everywhere one looks, there are preschoolers who only behave in the grocery store for a treat, narcissistic teenagers posting selfies across all forms of social media, and adult children living off their parents.

Parenting expert Amy McCready reveals in this book that the solution is to help kids develop healthy attitudes in life. By setting up limits with consequences and training them in responsible behavior and decision making, parents can rid their homes of the entitlement epidemic and raise confident, resilient, and successful children. Whether parents are starting from scratch with a young toddler or navigating the teen years, they will find in this book proven strategies to effectively quell entitled attitudes in their children.

©2015 Amy McCready (P)2016 Tantor

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"This user-friendly guide is overflowing with practical, creative, and thoughtful strategies." ( Publishers Weekly)

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Longer than it needs to be, condescending narration, but did have some good tidbits

The entire first chapter talks about spoiled behavior to no avail. We get it and that’s why we’re reading the book! By the 3rd chapter you still have the author trying to convince you and say things like “with tools you’ll learn later”. And in the forth chapter she’s still talking about what privileged behavior looks like.

The whole book is 11 hours! I’ve listened to global peace books that long! In reality this whole book can be summed up in a blog post. There are good pointers, don’t get me wrong, but the other 9 1/2 is just wasted material. Personally I really dislike authors like this because it’s like they’re trying to prove themselves or show they know more than they do.

Lastly someone mentioned that it seemed like the author didn’t like kids. I think it’s actually the narration. The narrator speaks in a condescending and demeaning tone the whole time making it seems like a “us” against “kids” book when there are some good pointers.

Personally I got much better advise listening to Choice Theory, which isn’t even aimed at raising kids, than I got out of this book. But I did learn from this book that my kids not spoiled (thank goodness) but I can give them a little more to do and also how to hold ground when they negotiate (because my kids are experts at it). However at times I do let them “win” so to speak because they present their case so reasonably and calmly that I think they should be commended for that. I don’t see it as me against them but rather as a mentorship. Therefore it’s my job to guide but also let down my guard.

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Great book with many tools

This book has really good ideas for un-entitling your children. I can tell already that these ideas are working. I’m going to go back through and reread the print edition (which I got from the library) so I don’t have to buy on audible and a paper copy. If you do the audio book be prepped to take notes otherwise there is no way you’ll remember it all, hence why I’m back for the print edition.

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Outstanding advice

This book is amazing! I already implemented so many things she suggested with my 4 year old boy and it works like magic. It’s so good that I need to re listening again soon!

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Amazing tools for Parenting!

These tools are so valuable in combating the entitlment that sneaks into your home. It serves as a great reminder to tune up parenting skills as you become a parent to mid-aged kids.

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Amazing smart and highly practical!

Best parenting book I have ever read - very practical and logical - and immediately effective. Can’t recommend it highly enough. A HUGE thank-you to the author.

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Very repetitive but good read

I believe she is very repetitive with WHAT the children are doing and their actions vs HOW to address and FIX those actions. I am on chapter 2 and have YET TO HEAR A SOLUTION. will update after the book is finished.

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Lengthy but very helpful and practical

Same content could've been delivered in half the pages, but still - VERY helpful and practical! So many great ideas to try out and apply in a variety of situations. Thanks Amy!

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This book actually advises you to withhold food from your child in order to get them to comply!

This book is pretty terrible! I got 3/4 the way through it and just couldn’t handle it anymore. The one good take away I got, was her mind body and soul time concept. Basically, she talks about giving a minimum of 10 minutes a day to your child where you are fully focused on them and do only what that child wants to do in play. She does however think, 10 to 20 minutes a day of focused time on your child is really all you need to do. The worst part of the book, as I mentioned above, she tells you to withhold snacks or meals if your child doesn’t complete a chore. In fact, she asks you to set it up this way! Stating, tell your child to sweep the front porch and when they are done they can join the family for dinner and don’t forget the kitchen closes at six so if you don’t get it done you won’t eat at all. Sickening, disgusting, abusive. Further, she repeatedly and regularly contradicts herself. Advice she offers in chapter 1 contradicts advice she offers in chapter 3 for example. Don’t buy, don’t read.

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Thankful

I’m so glad I found her books. All the tools she shares have worked or I believe will work. This book has changed how I think about myself as well. I’m striving for change and not entitlement in myself and in my children. Thank you.

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I’ve read, re-read and now listened

I love this book. I have a tattered copy on my bookshelf that I revisit when we fall out of the good habits. Now that I’ve downloaded the audible, I can listen in for a refresher.
I don’t love it when books are narrated by someone other than the author, because I think inflection is important. I honestly thought this was narrated by a Siri-type voice, but I’m willing to overlook that for the great content.

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