Stereotypes Of Parenting

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

Parents, they are the sole caretakers of their beloved children. They strive every living moment to care for, provide for, and to create a better life for their offspring. Most parents would prefer that their children follow the paths and guidance set forth by them. They teach and guide their children to the paths that they want them to follow, the paths that they believe is best for the future and well-being of their child. However in actuality, it is predominantly the child’s own decision to determine what their future holds. They may choose to follow the paths of their parents or perhaps even pave an entirely new road leading to their own destinies and dreams. Take the Wall’s family from Jeannette Wall’s memoir, Glass Castle, for instance. Even with

While children are influenced by many things, there are no stronger influences than that of their parents. Parents are usually their children’s first playmates, and while there world expands with each passing year, parental influence is still one of the greatest factors in determining the ways in which the child will grow and develop.

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

Parents influence their children in very many ways. Parents encourage desired behaviors and talents while discouraging those that are undesirable not necessarily to the children, but to the parents and adults in the real world.Desired behaviors are rewarded while undesirable traits and behaviors are met with punishment of some form. Our parents taught us how to be independent and to do things for ourselves. It was an advantage in that we don 't need to depend on other people to get things done and we don 't need to wait for an opportunity.This independence taught us to work hard for ourselves and to take charge of our own education and life.

Most parents take an interest in their child’s life from birth until they become an adult by picking and choosing what is best for them as much as they possibly can. Parents want to help their children to be as perfect as they can make them. Typically hovering parents spend a lot of money, time, and effort filling schedules things like with dance classes, baseball, and tutoring in order to have a ‘perfect’ child. As well as coming to their aid when they are in need, or their defense when they are in trouble. Help in making important, life changing decisions, like where to go to college at, or which career to pursue. When does helping become hovering? The generation of “Helicopter Parents” is becoming more and more prevalent in families. A

The hypervigilance of parents where they dictate everything that their child does actually does damage to the child because it stunts the development of internal motivation in these students (Margolies, 2016). If my parents had told me what clubs to be in, what sports to do, what classes to take, and what homework to do at what time then I never would have developed the motivation to choose for myself. It would have actually made me less capable of choosing things for myself, thus causing more stress in my life as more responsibility would fall on me as my schooling continues. The other dangerous way that this forced culture of perfectionism damages these youths is when they seem to be the perfect student, excelling in their studies in high school, and then without this constant support they crash in college and can quickly spiral out of control, not knowing how to handle this new stress as they no longer have the hypervigilance or the praise of their parents to keep them going. Helicopter parents think that by controlling these aspects of their child’s life will benefit them and create the best possible outcome for them. This is very obviously false as it is creating the situation of a severely underdeveloped child.

“Having a parent continue to be in a frequent presence is one of the best ways to ensure young adolescents don’t make too many big mistakes,” states the concerned mother. However, constantly protecting her child,results in them never learning to deal with the consequences. Ubiquitous parents disable their children from learning to resolve conflicts or learn from mistakes. The article states, “Many young adults entering college have the academic skills... but are lacking in life skills like ...conflict resolution.” My parents now let me solve my own issues, allowing me to learn from them. For example, I used to procrastinate on assignments. This resulted in me getting very stressed out and exhausted from staying up late. I learned to not start assignments last minute. If my parents intruded on my decisions I may have never learned not to start last minute and the consequences of doing so. More importantly, if parents refrained from hovering over their children they allow them to learn to assess their mistakes and

In Amy Joyce’s On Parenting article, “How helicopter parents are ruining college students” posted on September 2, 2014, Joyce addresses the issue with parents who controls their college student’s life to the public. Amy’s exigence is from an article recently published in the journal Education + Training found that there is an important line to draw between parental involvement and over-parenting.

From the moment we are put into our parents’ arms, they begin to shape our identity. Our appearance, thoughts and actions are developed from them and what they believe is “right” and “wrong.” However unfair as it may seem at times, everything done is based on their past experiences, the culture we are born into and ultimately done for our own well-being.

In the past there were many known parenting styles. Parents didn't have to identify the way they raised their children as a "style", it was just parenting. Now, in the 21st century, there are three main types of parenting styles, the tiger parent, the helicopter parent, and the free range parent. Children of these parents constantly debate about which style is the best, so which is the to raise a child? Free range parenting is the best parenting technique.

Parents have to become more aware of the affect they are having on their children when they do no implement chores into a child’s day to day activities. Chores help establish good work ethics in which children will need as they grow into adult life. Proverbs 22:6 says “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6 King James Version). Chores should not be looked at as the leftover job a parent does not want to do but more as experiences and learning lessons that carry on with a child throughout life.

But as soon as children start feeling that their parents care too much, they try to get back at them and do just what their parents don't want them to do. On the other hand kids who face lack of freedom may end up turning into introverts afraid to speak to other people or not as social (which is not a bad thing though).

We would like to start this speech off with a little comparison between what parents think and what we, being the teenagers, think. It is well known that parents and teenagers have not been always been known to agree on everything. Whether it was that haircut you got our that meal they tried to feed you. Sometimes we just don’t agree on everything. For instant, parenting in general, is often described differently depending on who you ask. According to some parents, “parenting is 50% love, 10% lies, 10% yelling and 30% unclogging toilets”. To them, “parenting is basically just listening to yourself talk because nobody else is.”. However, according to some, well most teenagers, “parenting is embarrassing us whenever, wherever 90% of the time”. To us, “parenting is having our own personalized cook, counsellor, chauffeur and bank”. So yeah, there's a little bit of controversy there. But parents, they’re great, I mean, it is an huge understatement to say that you guys are awesome! To

Parents put maturity demands on youth. Parent use their authority to keep children safe and guide children’s choice. At the same time, also listen to children’s point of view to encourage their input on activity choices within specific bounds.