When you reach middle age, please put away your generosity

2bebetter
5 min readMay 12, 2024

Life is in a hurry and only lasts a hundred years.

When people reach middle age, putting away their generosity, guarding their kindness, and living a good life are more important than anything else!

Photo by Dmitry Tomashek on Unsplash

01. Don’t be too spoiled to your children

Someone said: “The greatest sorrow of parents is that they give everything but cannot raise grateful children.”

If you can’t bear the suffering of your children, you still have to be a “nanny” when you get old; if you can’t see your children being upset, you won’t criticize you even if you do something wrong; if you are reluctant to give to your children, you will empty yourself out of yourself with full satisfaction…

But the result is that the more they pay, the more some children take it for granted and are ungrateful.

As the saying goes, a loving mother often loses her son. Many parents gritted their teeth and shouldered the burden of life, only to end up with a lot of complaints.

Freud once said: “The main driving force for growth comes from separation from parents.”

Don’t give your child “everything they want.” Only by being appropriately “selfish” can children have the opportunity to come into…

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