Every child is a precious asset of his parents. From the moment he is born the parents start with their duty as a caretaker and carry this responsibility till their last breath.
But the level of this responsibility has shown a considerable variation over time. In older times when people opted for multiple kids, they carried a somewhat casual attitude towards their children. With this I do not mean to say that they lacked in love for their children but when compare to protection and protectiveness for their children they were not as intense as the present generation parents.
With the advent of nuclear families with usually 1-2 kids at the max, the level of attention each child is getting has increased manifolds. These days giving birth to a child is no less than winning a battle and the so called reward of the battle becomes the most precious entity for the parents. They are looked after and taken care in every aspect that is possible from food to health, education to extracurricular activities. Each and every thing is looked after properly as well as precisely.
The adverse effect of this kind of upbringing is that it is making the present day kids over protected and over dependent on their parents. They take too long to start living an independent life. For each and small thing they are becoming dependent on their parents and look forward to their parents to come up with a solution.
It is high time for the parents to realize that their extra concern is doing no good to their children. This will all lead to harmful effects for the child in the long run. He will surely face a tough time in fighting the battle of life. Kids who are over guided usually end up with low self confidence and low self esteem. They fail to develop the belief in their own “self” and everytime keep looking for some guidance or support.
Like every other human being the kids also need their space. Leave them alone for short time and let them explore their surroundings on their own. Allow them to analyze things through their own view point and refrain from imposing your view point on them every now and then. Let them widen their horizons of imagination and make them aware of their capabilities.
Guidance at every point is important but parents should understand that there is a major difference between guidance and over protection. A line needs to be drawn in between the two and parents should be aware that crossing that line more often will be lethal for their beloved child.
There is no doubt that it is only “You” who have protected and prepare your child but correct methodology is really important. It is the way will carve out your future generation.
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You are absolutely right about this. People usually say that kids who are brought up by their parents are usually very spoilt because of the way the grandparents take care of them. Often they are given everything that they need, they are oftenly given or bought for gifts every now and then even when they don't need them. They are hardly beaten, even when they make a mistake they are usually just left to go unpunished. Now since parents were told that they need to spend more time with their kids, they have decided the only best way to go about this is get them what they want so that they can get out of my space. How wrong can a parent be. Buying them all they need is not a good way of getting attention to them. Like you said they will never be responsible. This are the kind of kids who lack morals in the home they misbehave even in front of their parents visitors and don't really care about the damaged they are causing. The same kids are the ones who will stay at their parents home until they are 40 years of age before they move out to be on their own. It's very unfortunate. Parents really need to stand up for their kids and do what is right for them. Always keeping a child at arms length will not always protect them. Send them out sometimes and test them, see how they would react to situations can they solve them or will they run away. Another thing protecting a child too much could get them in trouble. You will find such children getting engaged in very bad company's they start to develop bad behavior like smoking, drinking drugs and the like or even start engaging in sexual immorality. Especially the girls. This happens because when the child was let out without the parents after a long time, they feel they have so much freedom to do whatever they want and the result is usually very horrendous. So let go of your kids and let them mingle with others. Once you teach them morals from home they will know what is good and what is bad.