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Toddlers With Overbearing Parents Can Have Wide Range Of Problems Later On

Toddlers With Overbearing Parents Can Have Wide Range Of Problems Later On

Overbearing parents can harm toddlers’ capacities to manage their feelings and actions, opening pathways to later difficulties with school and friends.

You may know the anxious (overbearing) parent who (i) quickly tidies up the toys, not letting his/her toddler attempt to clean up after playing, (ii) intervenes immediately if his/her two-year-old squabbles with another child, whisking him away before he can resolve the dispute on his own, or (iii) helps him get dressed because he’s too slow getting it done himself.

These behaviors could be signs of overbearing parenting: being too strict or demanding considering your child’s developmental stage and behavior. Every mom and dad is guilty at some point of jumping in too fast, pre-empting children who would otherwise try for themselves. But parenting of young children that’s consistently overbearing and controlling is associated with troubling and potentially long-lasting impacts on children’s ability to develop important skills.

That’s what researchers found in a study of over 400 children and their mothers conducted at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Overbearing and smothering care, though often well-intentioned, can prevent children from facing developmentally appropriate challenges and learning how to resolve them effectively. By shutting the child out of solving problems, overbearing parents can actually deprive children of valuable “teachable moments”.

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