How Helicopter Parenting Harms Children
Overprotecting children, driven by parental stress, can lead to negative consequences for children's development, including lack of autonomy, low self-esteem, and difficulty coping with challenges.
Overprotecting children has negative effects, including a lack of autonomy and an impact on children's self-esteem, as well as excessive fear, need for approval, low motivation, lack of empathy, antisocial behavior, egocentrism, high levels of stress and intolerance to frustration, warned the academic from the Faculty of Psychology (FP) of UNAM, Mariana Gutiérrez Lara.
However, the university specialist pointed out, this behavior is linked to the stress of parents or caregivers. Their emotional state makes the bond with each daughter or son different. Even if we have two, three or 10, the relationship with each one is particular, it depends on how they are emotionally.
