Over protection!
Have you ever seen an over protective parent before? They are the most paranoid people I have ever met in my entire life because with every situation that they think about, their head goes to the worst places there can be.
I really don't know how a person can just take the most minute scenario and make a very huge mountain out of it in the name of fear.
I can understand that these parents have probably been through alot that I cannot begin to mention but is that enough reason to hinder their kids from living their best life, a free life?
The lead image shows a mother who is wrapping her child with extra material just because she is scared that her child will get injured when he plays. The look on the child's face tells us that he has had enough but the mother is just getting started.
Parents who are overprotective seem to think that it's the only way they can show love to and protect their kids but frankly, I think they do more harm than good and the kids are the ones who get to suffer it all in the end.
Most kids are not even allowed out of their homes except they will be supervised. Nothing like extra curricular activities or playing and the likes. All this because their parents are trying to protect them from the destruction in the outside world.
They seem to have forgotten that destruction also lies within and trust kids to always come up with new ways to learn things plus the every present social media who makes things all too easy.
Parents being to over protective always leads to development of the wrong attitude in these kids, as they would rather sneak off to a party, ditch class or school in total to go have fun because their parents would not allow them on a normal day.
I was a victim of over protection during my younger days and it wasn't funny at all, cos my mom wouldn't let us so much as go outside to play. I only had the option of playing with my sister indoors or not playing at all.
It got worse when I became a teenager because I wanted to hang out with friends but that wasn't happening either cos my life was pretty much a triangle, church, school and my house.
My first year in uni was very hard on me cos I wasn't used to the whole people thing and I couldn't even look at people in their eyes to talk nor was I comfortable walking into a class that was already full with people. I used to make sure I came to school very early so that I didn't have to walk into a full class.
It took me years to adjust because it was a life I was now used to. I always tell myself that I was lucky enough to have had close friends already in school who checked up on me often and taught me the basics, else I would have been an easy target for whatsoever you can think of.
Over protective kids are like a bird that has never flown out of its cage and with the slightest opportunity it gets to fly, it wants to fly to the end of the world.
If you ask me, over protectiveness is not the way to go at all because there are other ways it can be handled.
Author's Epilogue
Sometimes when I think about it, I still feel like I missed alot in my growing days and sometimes I feel like I missed nothing at all.
I may be handling mine well, at least I like to think so but that doesn't mean someone else is. Therefore, I say no to over protectiveness.
Thanks for reading!
Mhizutty the voice of truth 🎵🎶🎵
Indeed, parents should know their limits on protecting their child as sometimes it causes harm to them. it also took away their freedom and self-esteem as they don't used to get exposed. However I know that parents are just concerned with their children's safety but they should also trust their children's as they also need to grow and learn from their own to grow independent