How to balance protection and overprotection of our child?
When you’re a parent, it is sometimes difficult to balance the protection or overprotection of our child. Sometimes so many things that he would avoid in life, we want the overprotective spite of ourselves. We would like to have life easy without problems to overcome.
Stages of realization
- True, as a parent is hard sometimes, we Overprotection spite of ourselves. We would not want our child is injured or he finds himself in a situation sometimes complicated to solve.
- It’s natural to want to protect. Systematically, it does so without realizing it. Overuse of a protection that could be invasive to the child.
- By overprotecting, it prevents them from taking their responsibilities. It is necessary that the child has his own failures so that he learns how to cope.
- If you're still to meet the needs of your child, he will lose confidence in him if he does not take any responsibility. He will not have the chance to resolve whatever the problem he does.
- As a parent, try to trust him in his choices. If he commits a mistake, let it resolve itself without intervention. Warning, or ask your help of course.
- Do not forget that the experiment is done with the mistakes we made. Thus he can build his confidence and have autonomy in life.
- So avoid the over-protecting children while protecting the right balance so that he can learn from his mistakes by himself.
