News.Scotland.Org

July, 17

An interesting research has revealed that Britain parents are the most protective parents in the world. The reason behind this lies in the fact that these parents not even let their wards to roam much further than their front gardens. They are so protective, that they keep an eye on their children so that they won’t get far from their home alone.

The other side of this protective tendency is the fear of making children dependent and keeping them aside of the carefree upbringing. The study also found that the UK mother has shown more interest to keep a close eye on their children’s activities. The parents may be following this tendency for the sake of their wards but to some extent this over-protective nature is depriving kids of their childhood.

If we compare this protective approach of parents with other countries we can easily find that other than UK, all other places have a quite relaxed approach towards the children. In Argentina about 18 percent of mothers have expressed that they wanted to watch over what their children were doing, in US 15 per cent, South Africa 14 per cent, France 10 per cent, China 8 per cent, Brazil 7 per cent and India 4 per cent. These figures clearly show how other countries are having a low rate of over protectiveness towards their children in comparison to the UK.

Experts have expressed fear that if the parents in UK would continue this same approach towards their children, then in long run it could harm their children’s freedom. It will further affect their creativity and will harm their ability to form social relationships. Even it is said that children should be motivated to behave like children and most essentially they need time to explore and play in order to have formative experiences. This over protective trend shown by parents needs a change and children should have some freedom for sure.

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