Understandably so. People are grateful to someone who's generous to them but contemptuous of someone who gives them what they demand, even when it's the exact s

Understandably so. People are grateful to someone who's generous to them but contemptuous of someone who gives them what they demand, even when it's the exact same outcome. A workaround I sometimes use when my kid demands something is to refuse, then shortly after, offer something entirely different, and they're happy.