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Parents often believe that it is better to be safe than sorry. Do you…
Parents often believe that it is better to be safe than sorry. Do you consider young people to be too protected?
yes
overprotected due to stressful and competitive education system
- parents are highly protected about their child's image, will not hesitate to lodge complaints about teachers who make harmful remarks about their child
- important to have a academic degree so parents will sign their child up for enrichment classes
e.g. in 2013, a P6 boy was forced to trim his hair before PSLE Oral exam. when his mother knew about it, she wrote the incident on stomp to showcase her dissatisfaction with the action of the teacher
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- lack of problem solving skill --> children will share their problems with their parents and parents will come up with solution for them. this result in more reliant to their parents
- isolation--> when parents are too overprotective, child cannot get to lives its own life as they are following what the parents want them to do, living the parent's dream instead of their own
- no independence --> they should be given freedom where child will learn basic skills (sweeping, cleaning). they need to experience to find out what is effective for them as our parents cannot always be there for us
helicopter parents - used to describe parents who hover tirelessly and endlessly over the happenings of their children's daily life
- gives child no independence, they cannot try new things on their own since is constantly supervised
- seeing their children going onto the path of failure. parents do not want their child to repeat the mistake that they did in the past
no
young people may face danger as their mind is not well develop to make informed decision since most youths are exposed to social media and are likely to become vicitms of cyberbullying
e.g. according to straits time, the cases of teens falling for scam is rising from 2 cases to 10 cases. they are vulnerable as their brain may react to such anger as thrill/excitement so they do not have a basic understanding on online safety
parents cannot bear to see their loved ones get hurt so they will protect them with the best of what they can offer. young people may not have the ability to protect themselves well
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e.g. parents will often check up on them and teach them the right thing to do so their child do not offend any crimes
this reduces the chances of young people committing crimes and learn the correct thing so they do not have to face the punishments in jail
WHY SO PROTECTIVE?
reasons
- cultural influence because most Asian are adopting the western cultural more
- change in mindset because they have a better ability to give their child a better life so parents will tend to satisfy what they want
- SG family is quite small so they will pamper the single child/ children more