Overprotective Parents.

       As the child of Indian, Christian parents, I can say that in some respects my parents were very similar to the parents described in the article. Because they are not used to the customs and traditions in this country, they often feel the need to shelter my siblings and myself under the umbrella of their own. It is not easy to raised as an Indian while living in America. Especially since even my Indian cousins who live in India have parents who allow them to be more Western than my own. It's understandable - they, like most people, are frightened by what they do not know and understand and have tried their hardest to keep my siblings and me the way they understand children to be from their outdated ideas from their childhood. 

This method may have worked if I had lived in India for a bit or if I didn't have to go to school with people who with their parents epitomized the American culture. Since I was forced to go to school just like everyone I envied, it leads to a lot of questions that can't be answered by my parents or friends, they had to be answered by me. I don't know half of us first generation kids made it past elementary school - our parents have made us so conflicted between the way they want us to be and the people they wanted us to grow up with. 

The article mentions a lot of people whose parents pay for extra services to get them into Ivy league schools. Personally, I don't know anyone who's parents would pay so much money for that. It's a ridiculous amount of money. To be honest, when cell phones first came out, it was the one gift that I wanted. Once I got one, I hated it because my parents wanted me to call every minute of everyday. I understand that parents worry about their kids, but it's rather annoying to be tabbed all the time. When I first read about it in the article - I didn't think of my parents, I thought of the mother in the movie Daddy Day Care who gives her daughter a cell phone and tells her to call 911 in an emergency. A boy at the day care takes the girls dolls and rips the head off causing the girl to call 911 and tell the operator, "He's killing my baby!" 

Another thought I had while reading this article came from another article I read. It claimed that children whose parents are not overly watchful, who maybe let their kids play outside unsupervised for a bit, end up having far superior communications skills and are much better at making friends. If that's true than these over parenting parent are probably hurting their children's chances of getting into a goods school. In which case this over parenting or super parenting or whatever its called is completely ridiculous.