do you think parents are overprotective now a days if yes explain your answer?

Answer 1

No! There is too much CRAP in this world for a child to deal with all at once. I don't harbor my child from the cruel reality that this world has become but I try to ease him into it!

Answer 2

Yes and No, Parents Could Be More Protective And Sometimes They Can Be Less Protective. Like When They Follow There Kids Around When They Are Going Somewhere.
When You Leave Your Children Alone And Go Away With No Babysitter. Dose That Answer Your Question?

Answer 3

I think ever since this whole Terrorism kick came around, the media has sensationalized things, instilling more and more fear in americans (fear = control...makes a lot of sense)

In turn, soon after 9-11, i remember nobody really coming around to Trick-or-treat come halloween time...so yes, i do believe parents are protective, the average person watches the News, and the news is basically an overdramatic soap opera anyway, which generallly serves nothing but Weather forecasts, celebrity gossip, and a nice case of PARANOIA.

but what can we say...

parents will be parents, overprotective is better than underprotective sometimes..

Answer 4

Yes I do. I remember being a child in the 70's and 80's having so much more freedom than children get today. We are so safety concious these days that our children get very little freedom.

As a child, during the summer holidays, a group of us would be out from early morning and have to be home at dark. We would roam miles and invent wonderful games or build camps. We used to do some dangerous things that our parents would never have allowed, swimming in lakes, exploring disused train tunnels, ice skating on the frozen lakes in winter but I think we all learned valuable life lessons from our games.

Todays children have expensive computer games and consoles, their parents know where they are every minute of the day and play is always supervised and 'safe'!

The dangers were exactly the same in the 70's but they were not publicized quite so much. Peodophiles existed then of course but the national press didn't work up quite such a frenzy about them (the odds of a child being snatched by a stranger are very remote, harm is mostly done to children within familys.) And yet with my son I didn't let him 'knock for his friends' or play out on the streets because of the fear of this happening to him. We are much more fearful and suspicious than our parents were and because of this our children have lost out on valuable life skills. My son can't even find his way around the village we have lived in for most of his life, whereas I would have known every alleyway, shortcut, and hidey hole there was to know!!

I am as guilty of over protectiveness as everyone else. My son is driven to school and picked up, I used to walk (and by the age of 8 was walking my little sister and her friends too!) At 10 I would get a bus to the nearest town to go to the pictures or the swimming baths, my son has never done these things unaccompanied and he is 13 now! But we are so bombarded by how unsafe the world is that it is a surprise we don't all barricade ourselves in the house and do everything via the internet!!

And lets not forget, that in this day and age, a family who leaves their children unattended (even if they are a short distance away) can be so totally vilified by people that they are told it is their own fault if any harm comes to their children!! - I think anyone who had a holiday camp holiday in the 70's will remember being left unattended in chalets or caravans while their parents went to see the onsite entertainment! But that would be considered criminal negligence now!

Answer 5

I think that parents today are getting carried away with so many minor things and that is why kids today are so bad. When I was a child a smart mouth got smacked, now anything goes, anything can be said because they don't want to hurt their kids feelings and a generation of heathens is being raised. We need to take it back to the old school and actually parent our children and sometimes that requires thing the kids don't like but they will be better in the long run.

Answer 6

I believe parents today need to be protective. Look at the statistics of missing, abducted, kidnapped children who have been sexually molested and murdered. Children are vulnerable to the element that is out in the world. They need to be protected and taught and who better to teach them but their parents. Their lives are precious and no parent wants to lose their child. Being overprotective is the way parents should be.

Answer 7

Yes and no. A lot can be overprotective with things that don't matter, while totally ignoring the things they should be worrying about.
Different for everyone though.

Answer 8

umm... all parents are different but my parents are overprotective and I think its because you cant go out in the streets and play with your friends like you used to in their child hood and now any time you come out of your house its always a mystery if you will come back the same way you left..... it also matters where you live.... my parents also made many mistakes when they were young and i think they are trying to prevent me from doing the same mistakes or even worse

Answer 9

Yes, but some more than others. Given the current state of the world, it's perfectly understandable that a parent might go to some extreme lengths to ensure their child's safety. However, too many parents forcus on keeping a leash on their child instead of teaching them how to handle themselves in difficult situations.

Answer 10

Absolutely NOT.

Kids in this day have NO CLUE what overprotective means. There's too little Protection, on all levels, which is why there is ample evidence of emotional and physical abuses / problems.

Answer 11

Parents need to be more and more overprotective as society goes from bad to worse.