Overprotection Prevents Children From Growing Up
Overprotecting is preventing the child from discovering and conquering the world by themselves.
Whether on purpose or unintentionally, overprotecting is stealing the opportunity to experiment and learn according to each child’s interests or needs.
Mom, in this article we intend to explain the reasons why you shouldn’t overprotect your child.
Overprotection is the bad habit that some parents have to deprive another individual of freedom, be it a child, a teenager, a young person or an adult.
Overprotection comes into play when you don’t trust the abilities and skills that the individual has or can develop.
In the case of mothers, if she is overprotective, she will always help her child without thinking and even without caring if he needs help or not.
Overprotection: a threat to personal growth during childhood
That’s why it is said that when you overprotect your child, you bring up a child with a weak character, low self-esteem and fear of everything and everyone.
However, if you love your child and want him to grow up to be a strong, free and happy person:
- Let him fail and make mistakes so he can learn from them. So you will learn to get up.
- Let him see, hear, touch and analyze things for himself.
- Encourage him to bond with other children of the same age, make friends, and be sociable.
- Develop your emotional intelligence. Raise a strong child who can have better control of his emotions.
- Make him realize that you trust him and that he has the independence he needs.
- Express that even as a child, if he wants to, he can achieve his goals because the strength he needs to do so is within him.
- Give him the opportunity to reflect and make the very decisions he thinks are best for him.
- Don’t get him used to you having the last word. Children overprotected by their parents get used to it and even really need their help. Avoid going to that extreme.
- Show him that there is an entire world to be conquered, which will be his if he is brave enough.
- Do not frighten him or cultivate fear in him. For better or worse, we live in a society in turmoil and danger awaits us everywhere. If your child knows the “jungle” since childhood and learns to survive in it, he will never fall prey to the “wild beasts”.
Overprotecting children is preventing them from growing up
Mom, if you take care of your child in this way, you’re blocking his emotional and psychological growth.
It’s important for you to know that overprotecting him is not loving him. Loving your child is giving him freedom to act on his own and not be, for example, a laughingstock to other children.
It’s not a fact, but overprotected children are often submissive, shy and become a laughingstock to their peers and even become victims of physical and psychological abuse.
Finally, we have other advice to give:
- Do not want to put yourself above the duties and responsibilities that are children’s. Remember that in daily effort a love for material things and each person’s success is born.
- The home where the child is raised must be safe and full of love. However, your child must also encounter obstacles that make him experiment and go astray to take new paths.
- Don’t raise a child dependent on the family, afraid of the society you will have to relate to. After all, she will be a man or a woman who will have to face life anyway. Someday she will be responsible for running a family and raising her own children. Prepare him for this.
- One of the greatest riches a person has is his freedom, his autonomy to think and do for himself. Don’t take that away from your child! Remember that making mistakes, suffering, crying, repenting, getting hurt… it’s all part of life.
