5 Ways Helicopter Parents Can Affect You
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- čas přidán 1. 08. 2018
- Nowadays, many teenagers feel that their parents are being too overprotective and suffocating. Helicopter parenting is a term used to describe how some parents pay extremely close attention to a child’s life, to the point of controlling many of the child’s experiences and knowledge. One may argue that doing this will allow the child to grow up safely. Yet, there are adverse consequences of not letting children experience life for themselves. Do you relate to this topic? Is your parent a helicopter parent?
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On our Tumblr, a follower asked about the effects of helicopter parenting. We recognize how important this topic could be because of the harm that a helicopter parent can cause, we decided to release this video a day early. Hope you find this video helpful and share it so that more awareness can be brought to the attention of bad or toxic types of parenting. But of course, there may or may not be right or wrong way of parenting, but we can agreed that some are more harmful than good on some level.
Who here has a helicopter parent?
and my parents blame me because i can't make decisions...
My mother thinks she knows everything.
Actually the situation is usually more complicated. If you even ever try to explain your parents that they are acting toxic, they won't understand and make you guilty for questioning their good intentions.
I bury my insecurity and loneliness with humor.
A lot of asian kids might experience this
Yeah I may or may not of grown up in a family like this. I totally missed out on my high school experience due to how coddled I was
Haven't lived my teenage years to the fullest cause I was always sheltered and wasn't allowed to go anywhere. It's like they want you to do nothing but when you do nothing they get mad at you.
I have a helicopter mother and a neglectful father, I understand why they are the way they are but I still can't help from feeling so much resentment toward them. I love them put they pretty much robbed me of a healthy early life. Now I suffer from chronic depression and social anxiety. I guess all we can do in the end is learn from their mistakes and try not commit the same ones with our own children in the future.
I can't even defend myself from my parents and once I start convincing them to let me loose a little, they start manipulating me to thinking that I'm wrong. How can I stop them from suffocating me?
"Talk to your helicopter parents about your frustrations."
My overprotective parents actually taught me a pretty useful thing. They unintentionally taught me to lie perfectly lmao. Unfortunately, just recently I realized that out of 100% of what I tell them only 10-15% is true. Just afraid of telling them any true details of my life since 4th grade
I grew up overprotected. Now I have zero social skills, I don't really know who I am friends with and I literally have no idea what I want in life. Everything has been "Too dangerous" and now that I'm an adult, I have absolutely no idea what the hell I'm doing in life because everything has been done for me. Now I live a useless life filled with anxiety and depression. And for the most part I have almost literal hatred for my parents. Over protection creates a Man Child.
Lmao my mom is so much up in my life. I love her, but it gets annoying. Even when I smile at my phone it's an instant "who are you texting?". I never had a social life either, my mom doesn't want me going to other of my peers homes, but also doesn't let me hang with them at our house then. It's really stunted my social life. I haven't hung out with anyone since last year.
You just summarised my life in 5 minutes
I am 26, and I know that my parents have good intentions, but my adulthood has been a nightmare in regards to controlling and overprotective behavior from them. I struggle with extreme lack of confidence and sense of self. For so long, I have been afraid to do anything without their approval. I don't feel like I have any privacy with them, and I often am guilted/shamed into sharing every aspect of my life. This was a huge problem when I started dating (which I didn't even start until I was 23), because I was pressured into divulging how physically intimate I was with who I was dating (they were against it ((again, I was 23)) and wanted to control that choice of mine). I've just always felt intense pressure and judgement and shame from them regarding who I am talking to, friends with, or dating. Lots of skepticism. I am monitored and interrogated about my whereabouts. I started lying and hiding certain things because I couldn't stand it anymore. I feel awful about that though. I don't want to lie. I just want freedom of personal choice as an adult.
I too have helicopter parents. I have a very low self esteem and social anxiety. Growing up I thought studies was my main priority in life because studying was what my parents always forced me to do. At times I felt guilty of doing anything outside of studying. I hardly knew how to have fun. My childhood was boring.
I know someone whose mother literally controlls her entire life.
My father is a helicopter parent.