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The latest parenting trend is robbing your child of their adulthood!
No one can prepare you for becoming a parent for a straightforward reason: we are all different, and so is your child. But specific techniques are always trending, and most of the time, as it turns out, they were wrong, even harmful. Snowplow parenting is a disturbing trend that came to light after last year’s college scandal, which includes film stars Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman.
The snowplow parent always forces obstacles out of their kids’ paths. They have their eye on future success. Anyone or anything in their way has to be eliminated. No parent wants to see their child fail or to imagine that their futures will be anything but bright as the sun. But living in the future, not in the present, and not giving your child a taste of freedom, choices, and yes, failures, is a recipe for not so functional adulthood.
Snowplow parents, according to the experts, can make a child less resilient, and less likely to take risks. These children never develop proper coping skills or the maturity to make decisions on their own. Furthermore, snowplow parents think that their kids can’t do any wrong, which gives them a sense of entitlement that adulthood doesn’t tolerate.
Helicopter parenting, the practice of hovering anxiously near one’s children and monitoring their every activity was a similar, toxic trend in the late XX century. Just two decades later, we are facing a similar, yet even more troubling model of parenting.
The college bribery scandal has highlighted an incredibly dark side of “the new normal,” which is making sure that your child has the best, is exposed to the best, and has every advantage in the world, without understanding how disabling that can be to your child’s life. If you think that your parenting style is similar to snowplow parenting, there are things you can change and give your child a fair chance.
Allow your children to brainstorm to find ways to get out of a particular situation. Try not to think catastrophically. Empathize with your child, but let them experience various emotions. Please don’t allow yourself to be the person who hurts them the most, out of fear that they might feel hurt in the future. Leave the teachers do their jobs; your child is going to school to get an education and learn about responsibilities. Stop trying to influence the teachers, since you can spend that time helping your child develop more skills, from emotional to practical ones.