Summary Of Overprotected Kids By Hannah Rosin

Parents usually have the best intentions – like protecting their children from life's hardships and preparing them for adulthood. However as with many other aspects of parenting, the results do not always match the intentions. Overprotective parents generally want to protect their children from harm, hurt, pain, failure, unhappiness, bad experiences, rejection, and disappointment (Lindsey 1). However, parents must realize that overprotective parenting has certain side effects. Parents believe that they are doing a favor for their children by keeping them safe without realizing that this parenting style can have severe effects on children such as robbing children of the essential life skills that they need in order to have a healthy

This assignment will discuss “Amie’s case study” and will explore some of the risks that she is exposed too and how they can have effect on her welfare. I will start by defining what is child safeguarding centred on the legislation framework of the Children Act 2004. I will also look on what is abuse and naming types of abuse, and establish the knowledge and understanding of Assessment Framework in Amie’s case. I will also look at multi-professional strategies that can provide help and protect Amie and her siblings according to legal legislation.

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Children must be allowed to grow and mature at their own natural pace. The old saying ‘kids must be kids’ is based on this basic need. Dr. Sigel of the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, New Jersey says “Denying, or at least not recognizing, the child’s active outreaching curiosity has negative consequences.” (ProQuest, New York Times, pg. 2). When hothousing a child occurs parents run the risk of the children having what is known as achievement anxiety. This is when a child “come(s) to believe they are valued for what they memorize or produce or achieve”. (ProQuest, New York Times, pg. 2). It appears that there is more evidence that supports the belief that ‘mother knows best’. Meaning, children belong in the care of their mothers, at home, where they can be allowed to play, daydream, and explore their environments.

I just recently had the opportunity to read the magazine article from The Atlantic titled “The Overprotected Kid” by Hanna Rosin. This article constantly critiques and bashes society along with the parenting styles of today. I agree with Rosin that parents are too protective over their children because parents today are holding back their children and are preventing them from many experiences. Fortunately, my parents were not part of this trend, allowing me to explore and learn from my own experiences and mistakes. Playgrounds are becoming to a point that is almost too safe and children are taking less risks. Playgrounds and parents are not allowing kids to learn on their own and experience life while taking risks.

Julie Lythcott-Haims explains to us all what a perfect child is; straight A student, fabulous test scores, gets homework done without parents asking them to do it… She has the right idea, the right mindset of a parent, every parent wants their child to succeed in life. The way that parents are parenting their children is messing them up. They don’t have a chance to become themselves, they are too focused on whether they did good on that test that they were stressing about for a week, they are too worried about getting the best grade to be able to get accepted into the biggest name colleges around. The parents become too consumed with hovering over their children making sure that they are doing flawlessly in school, the parents are directing their every single move they make. The children then began to think that their parents love comes from the good grades. Then they start making this checklist; Good grades, what they want to be when they grow up, get accepted into good colleges, great SAT scores, the right GPA, the jock of the sports team.

In Susan Maushart’s essay “When My Kids Unplugged” she talks about what it was like for her children when she wouldn’t let them keep using their electronics because they were so engrossed with them. Maushart talks about the change that each child went though. She talks about how her son Bill is able to go back to playing his saxophone, and how he really changed after the first week of his separation anxiety from his devices. Maushart says, “UP to that point, Bill had barley picked up his instrument in two years” (99). His sister Sussy, also ended up switching her friend groups since she wasn’t online talking to them anymore.

Being too strict to a child can result in distant relationship between a parent and a child, and being uninvolved can also have the same effect or worse. Having a healthy relationship with the child asks parents to develop an amiable nature and an open mind when it comes to parenting. Get involved with children’s lives enough to help and guide when needed. Helicopter parenting would benefit in ample ways, in a child’s upbringing, perspective, outlook, social behavior, and it will help developing a healthy and friendly relationship between the parents and the child. It is better for children to run to their parents every time they need a piece of advice rather than going to a stranger looking for help, because no matter what, parents will always want the best for their children and would guide them appropriately. Even though some believe that helicopter parenting is detrimental, it has proven to be

An example of this is parents’ lack the balance that existed in the eighteenth century. According to Skenazy, we are overprotective and hurting our kids. After allowing her child to ride the subway alone she notes that many see this action as child abuse. She points out that this mindset is a reason we are hurting our children: “the problem with this everything-is-dangerous outlook is that over-protectiveness is a danger in and of itself. A child who thinks he can't do anything on his own eventually can't” (Skenazy). This problem can keep kids from living up to their full

BUBBLE-WRAPPING OUR CHILDREN by Michael Ungar(p1).on this article said “ this new normal is a growing pattern of overprotection that I’ve seen emerging as one of the thorniest clinical issues for therapists because it can look so reasonable. It mean can extremely harmful to their children and adolescents because of their to much overly involved in children's life and overprotective.However, I had one part of the article I am so agree with is the risk-taker’s advantage” over years of working with parents to help undo the bubble wrap around their

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Every parent wants their child to succeed and will do just about anything to ensure that success, but not really knowing how to make their child successful is scary. What makes it worse is there is a lot of information out there about how to raise a child that isn’t really true. Chapter five talks a lot about the finding of the ECLS and what the data from it showed. Again conventional wisdom, in this case what factors of parenting affect test scores is proved wrong which isn’t very surprising. It made me think about what possible conventional wisdom I’ve heard which may be wrong. The ECLS data showed that there is still a black-white test score that stems from bad schools which is pretty depressing. I thought is was king of weird how it matters

Most people feel as though controlling their children’s every move is what is best for them in the end, but in reality, it causes more harm than good. Overprotecting your child can lead to short-term problems such as being bullied to long-term problems such as depression. Also when you overprotect your child it can weaken your relationship in the future. Your child may feel as though they cannot come to you for things because you might judge them or doubt their abilities toward things. Another big problem most children seem to face with overprotection is a decrease in their confidence. They are always going to try and do what they can to meet your standards. When they do not think they meet the standards of where you want them to be,

America’s national parks benefits people in more ways than one. People who visit the parks know what a gem the parks can be with their iconic scenery, America’s battlefields, beautiful seashores, and the wildlife habitats. The parks can do more good than harm to the public. The trees in the parks store huge amounts of carbon and absorb pollutants from the soil and water. Bringing young kids to the park will teach them about nature and develop education about interpreting historical events. It benefits them and teaches them the values of parks that people do not see today. According to Linda J. Bilmes and John Loomis, “NPS officials see teaching young people about historical sites and conservation

Throughout every major city you will find a variety of parks and other public spaces. In this paper, I will explore who came up with the idea of public parks, and why public parks and other public spaces exist, as well as, take a deeper look at the history of one of Los Angeles’ oldest parks, Echo Park.