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were you (or a loved one) raised by overprotective parents?
Posted on 4/15/17 at 9:37 pm
Posted on 4/15/17 at 9:37 pm
how did it affect you? will you raise your kids the same way?
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Posted on 4/15/17 at 9:39 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
Nope.
Posted on 4/15/17 at 9:40 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
Naw. Most days we were lucky if our parents noticed we were missing.
Posted on 4/15/17 at 9:42 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
Yes.
I was very shy and didn't have great self confidence. Grew out of it a year or so into college. My younger brother bucked back and moved as far away as he could.
Neither one of us have a very normal relationship with them as adults.
I was very shy and didn't have great self confidence. Grew out of it a year or so into college. My younger brother bucked back and moved as far away as he could.
Neither one of us have a very normal relationship with them as adults.
Posted on 4/15/17 at 9:42 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
Nah. My parents pretty much had the perfect mix of freedom and boundaries.
And overprotective parents tend to produce crazy arse kids when they finally get out of the house. No thank you.
And overprotective parents tend to produce crazy arse kids when they finally get out of the house. No thank you.
Posted on 4/15/17 at 9:42 pm to BeerMoney
During the summer my mom preferred if I was gone from morning til dark 
Posted on 4/15/17 at 9:47 pm to Bmath
how so?
did they not allow you to hang out with friends? watch certain movies?
did they not allow you to hang out with friends? watch certain movies?
Posted on 4/15/17 at 9:47 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
sorry for the oweo thread btw
Posted on 4/15/17 at 10:03 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
I was. I won't let my kids do whatever they want or act like little shits, but as a parent I think it's important to find the middle ground. If my kids get drunk at a party in high school, I want them to know they can call me to pick them up.
Posted on 4/15/17 at 10:10 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
My sister had epilepsy and my parents were overprotective. She didnt have much of a social life in HS, and didn't get her drivers license until she was 19. If anything it made her more adventurous. She has traveled all over the world and lived in several foreign countries.
Posted on 4/15/17 at 10:12 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
No
Posted on 4/15/17 at 10:13 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
This post was edited on 4/16/17 at 12:21 am
Posted on 4/15/17 at 10:15 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
Me and my little sister spent the better time of our childhood playing in the "way back" of our hatch back station wagon. I can't even imagine the outrage if anyone were to do that today.
This post was edited on 4/15/17 at 10:16 pm
Posted on 4/15/17 at 10:21 pm to LouisianaLady
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I remember we were required to sit down with the family and have dinner at the table.
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My parents made us eat around 5PM, and they were really weird about us going back into the kitchen.
I am close to 50 so I come from a different generation but that was how most families were when I was a kid. My mom passed away when I was 6 so me and my brother were raised by our Dad so things became more relaxed. But I can clearly remember how things were before then. Supper was on the table and ready when Dad would get home about 6pm. I remember friends families being the same.
Posted on 4/15/17 at 10:25 pm to Ponchy Tiger
My parents are young. Dad was one of 6 who definitely wasn't raised with that being a thing, and mom may have been raised with sit down dinners but her parents are very soft-spoken and easygoing so I doubt it was a big deal.
I think it was just something my parents did with good intentions, but regardless of their heart being in the right place, it didn't really create very precious memories. I am inclined to think my parents aren't too fond of kids in general (my mom has told me this about herself), so I think that's why they get along with us so well now and not so much when we were younger.
I think it was just something my parents did with good intentions, but regardless of their heart being in the right place, it didn't really create very precious memories. I am inclined to think my parents aren't too fond of kids in general (my mom has told me this about herself), so I think that's why they get along with us so well now and not so much when we were younger.
Posted on 4/15/17 at 10:26 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
Yes, my Mom died when I was 8 and my dad was an alcoholic so I lived with my maternal grandparents. The combination of them being old and having already lost a child made them crazy overprotective of me. They did a wonderful job of raising me but I was pretty socially stunted until my mid 20's
Posted on 4/15/17 at 10:32 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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did they not allow you to hang out with friends? watch certain movies?
That plus I couldn't stay at my friends' houses unless they were really close with their family. My mom was convinced every adult wanted to molest her kids.
I had babysitters into middle school.
They wouldn't let me bring my car the first year or so of college.
Posted on 4/15/17 at 10:36 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
No. My dad and mom (to an extent, nervous) pretty much let my brother and I be kids though they had "eyes" everywhere in case we started some shite. If that happened, then we knew our asses were getting tanned.
Posted on 4/15/17 at 10:36 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
No. We were poor so being protective really wasn't much of an option. Hell I was introduced to guns and drugs just by riding the public school bus.
Posted on 4/15/17 at 11:25 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
My parents were deathly afraid and uneducated about drugs.
I did a lot of drugs in my younger days.
Won't make the same mistake with my kids.
Don't fault them or anything but it is true.
I did a lot of drugs in my younger days.
Won't make the same mistake with my kids.
Don't fault them or anything but it is true.
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