The Rise of Overparenting

I am in almost total agreement with this article.  As far of a stretch as parts of it are, the objective of the article was to get a point across which it did very well.  America in general is based on competitiveness so it's no shock to me that this has carried over into the way parents are raising their children.  I was very lucky in the aspect that my parents didn't ever push me to do anything new or to become more involved in something I was already currently a part of.  They would always support whatever I wanted to do, no matter how intense I was about it.

One of my high school friends on the other hand suffered a much worse childhood filled with over parenting.  She is the second oldest of 9 children.  I don't know what it is that causes the parents to be the way they are but they keep all of their kids on a ridiculously tight leash.  Socially, academically, extracurricularly; it's all planned out for each kid.  This of course causes the common reaction from the children of rebellion.  So much so that one of them had a child, married a different man, and moved to Alaska, while my old friend dropped out of high school, also got pregnant, and moves around staying in different homes other than her own.