It's all about locking yourself in your room and doing work because my DAD and MOM said so !!

The article “The Child Trap” has many various truths in what they are talking about. I agree with them that over parenting can corrupt a kid when they grow up. Over parenting keeps the kid away from growing up and keeps them away from making their own decision. If their parent makes all the decision throughout their life, than what does the kid learn? The kid learns absolutely nothing. Over parenting can lead to so many things especially when the kid hits college, the over parenting can ruin their academics and also their right to make a decision. I have a friend whose parents can relate to this article.

One of my friend is in college right now, but throughout his life he was pushed to do much stuff that a regular age guy in his grade wouldn’t do. His parents always pushed him to take all honors and AP classes. By the end of senior year when he counted up his honors and AP classes they were about 18 or so, he has never taken a regular class. Also, his parents were very strict about him going out. It was always about doing work and reading ahead in all his subjects. So, when all us friends decide to go out we call and ask him, his answer would always be “No, I’m sorry my parents said I can’t.” After a while we just gave up because we knew what the answer was going to me. His parents were also strict about letting him to his SENIOR PROM! Its like are you serious? He had to work around his parents and make sure he got good grades in order to go to the prom. Also, if he wanted to go to prom he wasn’t allowed to go out for 2 months or so. I believe that over parenting was a bad idea because now when he came to college it kicked him in his butt.

What I mean about that is that, once he got into college he had all the freedom to whatever he wants. Also, his parents pushed him to take honor classes. Do you know where that got him? It’s only first semester and he was doing bad because he had all the freedom to do what he wants. So, he took advantage of that freedom and screwed his grades over. This is why I believe that over parenting can corrupt a child. My parents were like that somewhat, but made them understand that if I do extra stuff I can ruin my GPA in high school and also in college. That made my parents realize that I should be able to make decisions and do what is best for me.