<p>I don’t care about over protective parents since they don’t affect me anyway. I have never been invited to a friend’s home anyway. And I have only received three birthday party invitations in my whole life. I went to one, other two I couldn’t go becuz I was moving somewhere else. I have only been invited once to shop with my friends, which I did go.</p>
<p>My mom is so overbearing, and I’ve done almost nothing for her to be that way. I just accept it (I thought everyone’s parents were that way for the longest time so whatever.)</p>
<p>Hmm. A remedy for your situation fails to present itself.</p>
<p>Please remember how much this approach sucks if/when you have kids. Try very hard not to emulate it.</p>
<p>@082349 a well-made out argument, but I disagree with the idea behind this. parents keep you from doing certain things, not because they just feel the need to shelter you, but because they know the consequences behind those choices better than you do (most of the time).</p>
<p>I feel like you guys are underestimating the whole parenthood significance. it sounds more like a “these strange adults dare to tread on your freedom” complaint. I mean, parents DO care, it’s not like they’re torturing you out of spite. I’m sure it would make their lives much easier if they just let their kids do whatever they want. hey, it takes effort to be overprotective, although that’s sometimes the wrong way to go.</p>
<p>this is coming from someone who has overprotective parents.</p>
<p>I agree with stressedouttt. I understand that parents are older and have more experience than us, so they understand the consequences of the choices we make. They do care, in fact, they care a lot. I think when a kid starts to mature and grow up, the over protective parents will eventually have to let go more and more. (it would be too much if they still have total control over you when you are much older.)
My mom is over protective, but as I said before I don’t really care. I appreciate the fact that she spends so much effort. She will eventually let more go as I get older.</p>
<p>Parents also know the answers to elementary school test questions. I think that they should be allowed to take their children’s tests, because the risk of a bad grade is something they shouldn’t allow.</p>
<p>^so parents should just let their kids do absolutely whatever they want? I’m pretty sure that I, as a 14 year old girl, would have been willing to walk through all the sketchy parts of NYC during the night with my friends for fun, if my mom allowed it. I don’t know about you, but in my experience, the parents who let their kids do whatever they want don’t turn out very well.</p>
<p>like cchanged, parents eventually let go as you get older. so going off your example, JimboSteve, by the time the kid’s in elementary school, the parents will have let them go enough to allow them to take their own tests.</p>
<p>I apologize if this sounded bitter. that wasn’t my intention</p>
<p>Letting a fourteen-year-old walk around in a slum at night is essentially equivalent to allowing her to attend a birthday party. </p>
<p>Similarly, keeping a toddler from running with scissors is, to a margin of error, approximately equal to forcing a teenager to closet religious beliefs for fear of losing college preparation materials.</p>
<p>What if the birthday cake is full of HIV? Or what if the birthday party’s an elaborate trap set up by a middle schooler to lock people in a house with instructions to survive, a l</p>