Jennifer Finney Boylan's The Overparenting Epidemic

During the Great Depression, when every ounce of life was bleak, withering, and hopeless, maintaining fortitude through adversity differentiated living another day and meeting the ravenous hands of despair. Thursday’s Child, a historical fiction novel written by Sonya Hartnett, explores the struggles of an Australian family during the Great Depression. Harper Flute, the narrator of the novel, reflects on the events of her early life with her family members. Da (Court Flute) is the father of five children, including Harper and her older sister, Audrey. In addition to being the husband of Mam (Thora Flute), Da is the scourge of the Flute family’s turmoil and anguish.

Hanna Rosin’s article, “The Overprotected Kid”, addresses the issue that kids are missing out on developmental benefits when they are not allowed to explore the world by weighing their own risks. She introduces rhetoric concepts such as audience, genre, and purpose to get her point across to her readers. Rosin uses these ideas to portray her opinion in a unique way to connect to her readers and persuade them to consider her viewpoint as their own. This article seems to be written as a persuasive journal entry to parents to sway their parenting behaviors to be less overprotective. In Rosin’s article, she makes a strong argument that kids need independence by making her audience, genre, and purpose known from start to finish.

Every way that a parent goes about raising their child will have a unique result. Written by Bianca Mgbemere and Rachel Telles, “Types of Parenting Styles and How to Identify Yours” is an article outlining different approaches to parenting and the outcomes each of these approaches has. Each of these major parenting styles are classified by the “different reactions” that the “children which they are used on” harbor (Telles & Mgbemere 1). Telles and Mgbemere expand on four types of parenting styles: neglectful, permissive, authoritative, and authoritarian. Estep, Hanna, et al. utilize these same parenting styles in their study outlined in the report “THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARENTING STYLES, GENERAL DEVIANCE, ACADEMIC DISHONESTY, AND INFIDELITY”.

Ever feel like your parents do not know what's best for you? Parents often want the “perfect” child. A perfect child might be a child who becomes a doctor, or someone who gets straight A's, or a child who is an all star athlete. That's the point, a perfect child differs from parent to parent and also from child to child.

Kid’s books usually show the main character being anything they want which shouldn’t be ingrained into kids. Most of the time there is a minimal role played in their own success which causes “overly-ambitious goals … [to] be harmful” (Reischer). Everyone’s destiny doesn’t reflect their internal qualities, Reischer uses her own experience, data, and word choice to explain how society affects kids. The author uses her own experience as the starting point of the article.

Therefore, leading to a separation from their parents. Perceiving an attack on their rights, the children ultimately, and consequently, murder their parents to protect their

Parents are in our lives as tools of wisdom and compassion as we grow up. Trusting parents grows over time through observation of actions and words. In Jeannette Wall’s memoir, she had to grow up very quickly. Her mother was a wayward teacher who did not commit to one job for very long. Her father was a drunk who has shown he is not the most trustworthy.

In Flannery O 'connor 's short story The Comforts Of Home the three main characters Sarah Ham (a.k.a. “Star Drake”), Thomas, and Thomas’ mother. All three of these characters are very diverse and none alike. One being a “little slut” who is addicted to alcohol, Sarah Ham, then Thomas who thinks very highly of himself, and Thomas’ mother, who of course is like a mother, cares most for the troubled one.[1] With then Thomas’ mother babying Sarah, Thomas feels like nothing to his mom.

Parents are usually the primary factor of control, mitigating any fear or danger in the kid’s world. But remove this factor from the equation and these children are left unprotected against every evil thrown their way. They then mimic these evils and become the John Venables of

"The Revolution Will Not Be Supervised" by Hannah Rosin is an article written for The Atlantic and is about parenting. The article is in the subject of how overprotective parenting has changed our kids over the past few decades. In my opinion, parenting should not be as overprotective as it is now, and kids are suffering from this. This article is very well written and there are definitely parts I both agree and disagree on. The statement, "The idea was that kids should face what, to them, seem like "really dangerous risks" and conquer them alone.

Often, parents can be overprotective of their children because they fear failure or because they want to protect them from potential harm. Despite their good intentions, children of overprotective parents are affected in their development and maturation and generally have a difficult time trusting in anyone other than their parents. This parenting method is known as helicopter parenting, like helicopters, they hover overhead, overseeing their child's life. The term helicopter parenting was first used in 1969 by Dr. Haim Ginott, the author of "Parents and Teenagers. " The term was in fact, composed by teenagers describing the behavior of their parents.

Helicopter parenting 1. Outline Parenting is a very controversial subject. Everybody has an opinion as to what is the ideal way of raising your child, and many prefer for people not to interfere in this decision, but what if you’re doing it the wrong way and in reality causing more harm than good? The term “helicopter parents” is known for it’s negative reputation as it typically describes a parenting style that is focused around patterns of being “overcontrolling, overprotecting and overperfecting.”

Researchers have defined “helicopter parenting” as parents who are too involved in their children’s life. This includes solving problems that children could solve on their own and making important decisions on their children’s behalf. This causes many problems in children. Helicopter parenting is wrong because it is invading a child’s privacy. A parent hovering is harmful to the child because it can cause a feeling of being overwhelmed by always having someone over their shoulder (“Here’s Why You Need to Stop Helicopter Parenting”).

One of, if not the most important issue regarding child welfare is the role parents play in their children’s lives. A major issue facing the protection of children is lack of proper parenting education. According to research by the National Children’s Alliance “More than 3 million American children are investigated for child maltreatment each year. " The site also states that “Nearly 700,000 children are abused in the U.S annually" and even more alarming statics is that “In 2016, an estimated 1,750 children died from abuse and neglect in the United States.” A major part of this issue stems from parents who overwhelmed or are underprepared to be parents lacking the proper resources and parental knowledge to take care of their children.

I. Introduction A. P. J. O 'Rourke once said “Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them” (O’Rourke, Pg.10). Parents always want their children to be better than what they used to be when they were at their age; that is why they care about every detail in their children’s life especially when it comes to behavior, obeying them and listening to their words. B. Background Information: i. People came to realize that physical punishment is a rough, atrocious, unacceptable mean of punishment that should be banned for its appalling, horrifying effects. ii. Facts about physical punishment (sources used) 1.