Parenting can be both challenging and fulfilling but overdoing it is a different story. This may result to over-parenting, which has a lot of effect not just on the development of the child but also to the parents.
It is but natural for parents to make their children happy and protect them from harm. As a result, there are parents who exhaust themselves in meeting this without realizing that they are already compromising their own needs.
One mother said that she would be willing to take a hit on her own happiness for her children. In an article published by Cosmopolitan, she added that when her first child was born, she would exhaust herself in finding ways to optimize every aspect of his life.
With best interest in mind, some parents will tend to choose a career for their child. There are also some that instead of allowing their child to eat on their own to exercise their motor skills, they would assume the task of feeding them.
Others disregard their alone time and spend it with their children because of the mentality that every precious moment should be spent with their young ones. Parents, in turn, are depriving themselves the time for self-reflection and self-nourishment.
Benefits of engaged parenting to a child, such as increased feelings of love, acceptance and development of self-confidence, cannot be neglected. But parents must remember that the child is his or her own being and that failures will teach them new coping skills to pull through the challenges.
Effects of parents' excessive involvement in their children's life can sometimes be counterproductive. In their desire to make things easy for their kids by removing or eliminating the negativity and having their children avoid the pitfalls on the road to adulthood, what parents fail to realize is that they are limiting the development of psychological resilience of their children, How Stuff Works learned.
Instead of doing things for them, it has been recommended by some experts that parents ask them questions on what they think they should do to solve a problem. Parents can also hold their child accountable in accomplishing basic skills at each stage of their lives with proper guidance.
