Overprotecting Children

“There seems to be only one definite statement one can make about bringing up children- and that is that they should be accepted as individuals in their own right and their differences from their parents and each other tolerated and encouraged.”, this is Anthony Storr opinion about parenting. Compared to early childhood, during adolescence there are greater chances that parents will worry more because the problems are bigger. Parents who tend to overprotect their children cause them to grow dependant, have low self esteem, and have relationship issues. Therefore, parents and children should have more meaningful communications and healthy parenting boundaries should be reinforced.

Even though there isn’t an exact definition of an overprotective

Many parents worry about where their children go because of events heard out on the street. However, if it was a couple of years ago parents would let their children out and wouldn’t worry about where they went.

Studies show that overprotecting is not the best way to secure a child will become a self- reliant, functioning adult, and it tends to make children to suffer anxiety and depression. This mainly affects college students as shown in a survey made in 2015 and based on more than 100,000 college students. In the survey the most common health problem was anxiety, as nearly 1 in 6 of the students were diagnosed or treated for anxiety. In the end 55 percent sought counseling for anxiety, 45 percent for depression, and 43 percent for stress.

Many children need to take into consideration reasons why parents are overprotecting and it may not even be the child’s fault. Parent’s responsibilities increase especially when their own parents grow up or may be unemployed. Depending on the size of the family, parents might tend to work more than one job a day causing the parents to spend less time with their children and cause them to have guilt. Children change rapidly and parent’s tend to be a step behind. However, as children grow up they tend to grow away from them, and have no time for them, so they might seem

In school, parents who tend to meet with teachers and principals don’t help the child improve. To the contrary, helping the child with homework could lower grades and punishing for bad grade only make the child more anxious. This leads to the child not being excited about school and when going to college parents tend to help pick out a major causing the child to be less satisfied with the education they’re