Replies to '11/27 Extreme Moms'

I am sorry but I have to ask.  Were you being hypothetical in the third paragraph?  If so, it was a slightly unrealistic analogy.  What does the next mom buying a bigger SUV than the last have to do with being overprotective of your kids?  I find it hard to believe that an overprotective mom would actually run the risk of taking another child's life just so she can check up on her own without their knowledge.  I am a very literal person that's why I take your comments this way.  I'm not trying to be rude or derogatory, I'm just very literal and logical.  Anyway just curious!

I do, however agree with you in the second paragraph.  Parents who shield their kids too much so often times create a curiosity in them because they never were allowed to experience it on their own.  Thus, leaving the parents dumb-founded when they do find out. I'm not saying let your kids go out and experience drugs/alchol and become sexually active at an early age but don't smother them either because that is what will happen, eventually. I firmly believe children should be prepared instead of protected.  Protect them from child preditors? ABSOLUTELY!!!  But not from things for which they need to be preparred.  I find it hurts the child in the long run which, follows them into adulthood.  The reason I know this, I am that adult!  I was a child with special needs so, my parents felt they had to shield me from "the world".  I'm not griping, I have the best parents!  They were only doing what they thought was best for me at the time.  Anyway, even at 27 they are still in the habit of protecting me.  I will alway be enternally greatful to them but their comes a time when you have to take responsibility and do things one your own.  That's kind of where I feel they failed because they've always done everything for me.  Now, I haven't a clue how to make it on my own!