When Parents Care Too Much
Parenting is often a gift. It is a challenging aspect in life that doesn’t stop at you tucking in your son on his safari jungle twin quilt with pillow sham every time he goes off to bed. However, when is too much parenting? As a parent, we like to provide for all of our children’s needs. No matter what they want as long as we can afford and accommodate it, we give it to them. But most experts say that this comes at a price. Children often become way too dependent on their parents instead of standing up for themselves and living independently. Although the American family can use a little familial closeness, this overdependecy often results to negative things.
For instance, a study conducted has shown freshman college students to be more anxious than ever. Although there are a lot of factors that contribute to this, one article has pointed out that it’s because the family is becoming closer than ever. This becomes bad since the child is not accustomed to being independent and once he or she moves out for the first; away from the family, it often results to a lot of problems. Children these days are often bubble wrapped and protected from society by their parents. They like to make sure that nothing bad will ever happen to their child. There is nothing wrong with this but parents have to remember that a child needs to learn on his own in order to survive. Parents cannot be there forever and they children need to understand that. This narrowing of the gap might be good in certain aspects but somehow it’s also the same reason that families and teens are falling apart.
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