Today's Parents are too Overprotective

[Drummer Ben]

My parents care too much about everything in my life its annoying. They've been overprotective my whole life. When I have kids not for awhile but when i do if they didn't want to eat Why would I care? I'd let them go hungry for a few days, eventually they'd come crawling back to me. You see parents today are way to overprotective of their kids, they don't let kids figure things out for themselves. Its creating a world of sociopaths. Kids need to figure things out for themselves even if it mean loosing a few fingers in the process. Its creating a generation who believes everything gets handed to them.

Telling a little kid to lick a 9 volt battery is funny as hell and I bet he'll never do it again. Their is no easy way out, everyone has to learn the hard way or we'll never learn.

Luckily many kids are seeing past the bull and are taking back control. I have hope for my generation. Out with the old in with the new. I truly believe the saying "let the children protect what the sires have won"!

[JustAGamer]

So you are saying that parents shouldn't be parents? Parents protect their children. That's how nature works.
Yes, a lot of kids are greedy and lazy. Not feeding them wouldn't solve the problem. Instead parents could just not give kids so much stuff. Seeing 8 year olds walking around with Iphones and swearing like crazy makes me kinda sad.
And about the sentence "When I have kids not for awhile but when i do if they didn't want to eat Why would I care? I'd let them go hungry for a few days, eventually they'd come crawling back to me." That's the most stupid sentence I've read In a while.

[sixguy6]

This is just sad but funny. Maybe she was just ranting about it because she was mad and didn't mean it??

[unknownuser]

Overprotective does not have anything to do with lazy/greedy kids.

Parents being protective or their kids is good. Maybe you don't see it that way, but I'm sure that at some point in your life, had your parents not held you back or warned you, you would have wound up severely hurt, or worse - dead.
However, you have to draw a line between overprotective and just plain protective. When your parents see that you are mature, they will trust you and give you a bit of leash because they'll know you'll make the right choices and stay safe.

As for the lazy/greedy kids that expect things handed to them... Until kids are old enough to save up and earn their own money, it is the parents that are buying their kids things. Lots of parents who feel guilty that they don't spend enough time with their kid or feel like they're bad parents will try to suck-up to their kid by buying them things. And that is where the problem lies - the parents because they try to substitute affection for material items, and that just doesn't work... So either don't readily hand these kinds of things to kids or have 'em work for it.


Although it may seem like it, our generation is not the first to have had these problems. Years before us, parents were gifting the cool kids with their own personal television sets, boomboxes, and VHS players - equivalent to today's iPhones and tablets/computers.

Not every kid of our generation is going to turn out a selfish bastard, I can assure you that. :P

[TheN3rdyOutcast]

I'd just like to say there is a thing called child abuse, and if you cross that line, you'll get caught in a web of legal trouble.

[Elliott_hn]

i kind of have to agree with u

[Pulp501]

I don't agree that kids should have to learn their own mistakes. I've learned not to do most things by being told not to do it, I didn't have to deal with the consequences to "learn a lesson". I think too many parents let their kids get away with whatever they want. You gave an example of parents making their kids eat. I'd like to think that if I'd have kids I'd make sure they were fed everyday. Even as teenagers, I wouldn't let it slip more than every once in a while

[Croconaw]

My dad doesn't care what I do.

[CuteGuy889]

Todays "helicopter parents" can hover around you lyk mad....But u cannot beat my mom...
If I am at a frinds / relations place & I want to go to loo for the "big job" (which I had to quita few tymes), I had to tell my mom.
She come along into the loo, take my pants, top and undies off without caring to close the door and then stands outside the door holding my clothes & not letting me close the door fully till I finish my job.
Whn I'm done and wiped she hands me clothes one by one...Fw of my cousins (including gilrs) saw this fw times and made fun.
I had to cry and make a tantrum for her to stop these whn I reached 14.
This happened as she was paranoid I will not clean myself properly at outsiders's place and cos I was the youngest of 3.

[Desuetude]

I disagree with the situations that you assume to be 'overprotective'. I mean making sure your children eat 3 substantial meals a day is just the job of a parent (especially for younger kids), its not even protecting them it's just 101 parenting to be honest.

I'd say my parents are more overprotective than most, I'm not being a little bitch about it (I hope) because I understand some kids parents aren't there for them at all and that ducks in its own way but sometimes you need a little breathing space, don't you think? Being a mature 16 year old (don't go out late, basically have no life, get good grades, blah blah blah and the rest) they keep me on top tight a leash and sometimes I find it overbearing. I mean I know they love me but I want some indepedance to explore myself. Im not allowed to go to parties. They need to know who I'm with and their numbers and address where I am, what I'm doing 24/7 - literally have to text them every half hour to tell them I'm still alive. They do constant room searches for I don't know what but both at my mums and my dads when I move house things are out of place and really that's too much of an invasion of privacy in my eyes.

Yeah some parents are a lot worse than mine but come on, they have to let us live a little.

[Drummer Ben]

Okay finally back. No I mean today's parents don't let their kids learn themselves. A kid has to learn what it means to be in a fight, they have to learn to defend themselves, they have to learn to work out arguments with other friends themselves and not have mommy swoop in and save the day. My whole life I've learned from things happening to me not my parents controlling what I do. Sometimes you gotta throw your kid in the fire and hope they come back alive. You can't hold on to them forever. The hard way is the only option. You know teach your kids how to hunt, let them watch that scary movie, let them climb on that dangerous rock. If they get hurt good, they need to learn pain. Don't shelter them from the real world. Let them no right off the bat we live in a violent world. I'll give you an example. On 9/11 2001 my mom shielded the TV from me not wanting me to see what was happening. I would of shown my kids right off the bat what was happening. Their going to find out eventually, the sooner the better. And by kid let's say 10 years old.

[Body odah Man]

Todays "helicopter parents" can hover around you lyk mad....But u cannot beat my mom...
If I am at a frinds / relations place & I want to go to loo for the "big job" (which I had to quita few tymes), I had to tell my mom.
She come along into the loo, take my pants, top and undies off without caring to close the door and then stands outside the door holding my clothes & not letting me close the door fully till I finish my job.
Whn I'm done and wiped she hands me clothes one by one...Fw of my cousins (including gilrs) saw this fw times and made fun.
I had to cry and make a tantrum for her to stop these whn I reached 14.
This happened as she was paranoid I will not clean myself properly at outsiders's place and cos I was the youngest of 3.

Wow dude, that is hardcore. And embarrassing