She told me kids today "have fewer opportunities to practice social-emotional skills, whether it's because they live in a violent community where they can't go outside, or whether it's because there's
overprotection of kids and they don't get the independence to walk down to the corner store."
Her parenting books The Blessing of a Skinned Knee, The Blessing of a B Minus, and most recently, Voice Lessons for Parents: What to Say, When to Say It, and When to Listen, help parents and other child caregivers avoid the pitfalls of perfectionism,
overprotection, overscheduling, and overindulgence, and engage with children in ways that nurture, enrich, and encourage.
"In eating-disordered women, paternal rejection and
overprotection were found to predict aspects of eating psychopathology via the mediating role of abandonment, defectiveness/shame and vulnerability to harm core beliefs" (Jones, Leung, & Harris, 2006, p.
To a question whether allowing an foreign airline biggest plane on our airport was not detrimental to the business of the national flag carrier (PIA), he said protecting our own airline was a good thing but '
overprotection often leads to inefficiency.' Instead of protecting PIA we should let it compete with other airlines of the world, said Lodhi.
Concerns about
overprotection of intellectual property acting as a barrier to innovation and its diffusion are not new.
Through meta-analysis of 325 reports, Pinquart (2013) identified differences between the two groups, with parents of children with a CPC demonstrating less parental warmth, more demandingness, and more
overprotection than parents of healthy children.
Findings suggest that there are three main dimensions of parental rearing behaviors: emotional warmth, associated with positive developmental outcomes, and
overprotection and rejection, associated with negative outcomes (Baker & Hoerger, 2012).
It's hard to avoid the conclusion that the
overprotection of children and the hypersensitivity of college students could be two sides of the same coin.
Since epilepsy is perceived as a key problem, parents sometimes tend to handle the child differently than other siblings in the form of
overprotection. [12]
The "dysfunctional parenting" specifically associated with two key factors i.e., care and
overprotection of both mother and father was focused.