article_snippet: Do you dote treat your children to a gadget or give your children money when your children perform well at school?
article_snippet: According to a study, such actions could be detrimental to such actions development, and cause such actions to be more materialistic as adults.
article_snippet: Using material possessions to express love or reward children for children achievements can backfire,' wrote the authors in the paper called Material Parenting. '
article_snippet: Loving and supportive parents can unintentionally foster materialism in Loving and supportive parents children despite Loving and supportive parents best efforts to steer their children away from relying on material possessions to find happiness or to judge others.'
article_snippet: The authors surveyed 701 adults to measure the long-term impact of material parenting.
article_snippet: Parents should therefore be cautious about using material goods to express Parents love and reward Parents children for good behavior, warn the researchers.
article_snippet: the researchers say an overemphasis on material possessions during childhood can have long-lasting effects.
article_snippet: It can pave 'the way for the researchers children to grow up to be more likely than others to admire people with expensive possessions and judge success by the kinds of things people own,' the authors conclude.
article_snippet: the authors surveyed 701 adults to measure the long-term impact of material parenting.
highlights_snippet: 'Using material possessions to express love or reward children for children achievements can backfire,' wrote the authors .