Overbearing parents do not benefit children.

The idea of overbearing parents is actually one that I can relate to. In general, however, overbearing parents tend to unintentionally "harm" their children. They do this by preventing them from real world experiences that result in personality, expression, and identity of onse self. When parents do everything for their children hoping for it all to pay off in the end, usually never works. The more parents hover over their children, the more disobedient they tend to be. When my parents went through a phase where they were always on my case and always pushing me to do things that did not appeal to me, I felt that it was more necessay to disobey them and disrespect them. I lost a sense of respect and appreciation for them due to the amount of hovering they took part in. I felt that I was less able to experince things my own way and I felt that I was experiening less opportunities where I needed to deal with issues myself. Parents are not going to always be there for their children, past highschool. Yet these days, it seems that college and now the borderline where parents begin to slow down with the amount of aid they provide for their children in school. According to Marano, she too thinks that too much parenting is more harmful then good. Too much parenting does have the power to turn children into what she calls "wimps." Growing up with a nanny or a mother always in your face, tends to leave an impression on a child. Whether they mean to or not, they begin to feel the sense of security of having someone always there to help and fix all problems. This sense of security morphs into comfort, where the child knows no other way to live their life other than having a parent live it for them.