As a parent do you do one or more of the following things with your kid(s)?
-Always worry about giving your kids an edge?
-Compete to get your kids into the best playschool, kindergarten or grade school.
-Intervene when the kids rough-house with each other.
-Get involved with their university courses, grades, professors or dorms.
-Get involved with your kid’s workplace or bosses.
-Expect weekly or more frequent updates from your kids in college or university.
-Constantly shuttle your kids from one activity to another be it dance, music, soccer, etc.
-Constantly have your kids in activities controlled or supervised by adults.
-Constantly pushing your kids and their teachers for your kids to do better (even if they are straight A students)
-Constantly worried about the safety and well being of their kids.
If any of these apply to you then you are likely a hyper parent. Although you are parenting from a place of love, studies show that you are likely doing your children harm. The way Baby Boomers and Gen X’s are bringing up or have brought up their kids has turned into a social experiment that may have dire consequences. At a very minimum these kids have trouble making decisions on their own, many are highly stressed and their sense of entitlement makes it difficult for them to fit into the mainstream of society.
I recently watched a show on CBC TV in the “DOC Zone” series called “Hyper Parents & Coddled Kids”. I find what they have identified in today’s parenting practices to be disturbing. I think every parent and every person in a position of influence or authority over the youth of today show must watch this program and then consider their own actions and values about their influence over children. The show can be found on CBC TV in the Doc Zone series at http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows/Doc_Zone/ID=1405930535
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