【Haichuan Teahouse】Do you require your child’s sports shoes to be from a famous brand?
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Chen Zhilin, an expert in adolescent education and a certified counseling psychologist with the British Psychological Society, says that a sense of comparison is an innate psychological trait of humans, and children are no exception. An appropriate sense of competition can actually serve as a motivator for children to make progress, but if this sense of competition is too strong, especially regarding material things, it may lead to psychological distortions in children and even cause them to take wrong paths. Therefore, for behaviors like Haohao’s that involve materialistic comparison, parents had better avoid giving in out of kindness or impulse.
Starting from the point when one begins to understand a little about things, there is often a tendency to compare oneself with others. Are people born with a sense of vanity?