Overprotecting Your Children? How Not to Overprotect Your Children - Meeting Challenges and Overcoming Obstacles

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Very demanding parents always believe that only strict parenting will make their children succeed in life. Experts also believe that most of them overprotect children by keeping a strict control on their activities and behaviour. However, overprotection and demanding parental techniques may eventually contribute to their children's low self-esteem, self-confidence and accompanied by bouts of uncertainties.

Overprotection seems to be the result of a parent's self-chauffeured type of parenting. Self-limiting parenting could be disastrous for children, because they may never get a chance to test their level of endurance, or to know what limits they need to cross so as to achieve the best in life and in what manner they can test their ability to think and act in an independent manner.

Every child is an image of himself! Self-esteem and self-image are the essential mirrors to children's life. Low self-confidence may dent a child's right to live like any other children who have better self-esteem. Parents may like to adjust their overprotective learning style to help their children integrate with the normal world that exists around them. Providing optimum protection to children seems to be the best idea for parents. All the best!

Thought for today:
"Your child will be better prepared to tackle the bumps on the road of life if he has been given the gift of guided independence." - Jacquie McTaggart

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