protective parents.....

To a certain limit, the protection of parents is important for the siblings in order to retain their innocence and keep them free of all horrors of life. More protection,than what is required, will positively be wrong as the child will never learn to cope up with difficult situations. Children have to learn to face all things in life with calmness, mental balance, and clarity. They need to understand that exerting their minds to look for solutions to everyday problems is a must, and it is they themselves who has to do it.

Children may end up good for nothing once they are overprotected.They develop fear of all kinds.They will lack independent decision making ability. Parent's fears for their children's safety, if extreme, can have an adverse effect on their children's confidence and self-esteem. By molly-coddling a child, a parent is only making the child more dependent and inhibiting her attempts to learn to do things by herself. Overprotective parents unintentionally send out a message to their children that they are incapable of handling things by themselves. In addition, the parents' fears transmit themselves to the children who, in turn, begin to perceive dangers lurking in every new activity and experience. It has been observed that children have fewer falls, tumbles and injuries when left to play by themselves than with parents constantly cautioning them, and ready to leap forward at the slightest sign of danger. Parents who fear that an activity may be risky should warn their children beforehand rather than while they are engaged in the activity. Else, the warnings merely serve to transmit the fear to the children and distract them, leading to a greater probability of an accident. When a child does something on her own for the first time, it is a great accomplishment, even if it is something as insignificant as learning to ride a bicycle. Parents who wrap their children in cotton wool, in a manner of speaking, are denying their children this pleasure.