Personal Narrative: Growing Up With Overprotective Parents
Growing up with overprotective parents has taught me valuable lessons such as organizational skills and respectfulness, but my personality has suffered from it. Often times my parents have restrained me from attending a party or have restricted me from potentially “dangerous” activities. Adolescents need adventure to find their true selves, and discovering it is a task that should be journeyed alone, without overprotective parents. Parents are considered the best advice givers, but if they happen to become too restricting and self imposing, than the children become robots, always dependent decision makers. Trapped in their parents’ envision, children lose themselves and never acquire creative skills. Overprotective parents stifle creativity,
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For the parents, it is troublesome since it causes them to have weak relationships with their sons or daughters. Looking back to the past couple of years, I regret being rebellious. Nowadays, I the relationship between my parents and I is distant, but, when family moments occur, I resent the times when I planned to puncture the relationship further. When teens rebel, their actions create distrust between their parents which results in making the parents more protective than previously. The teens become enraged and choose to rebel and lie to a greater extent, widening the gap between parents and child, thus creating a downward spiral effect. Regaining trust is difficult once lost. I know from experience. A summer night I left with friends to watch a movie without informing my parents, knowing their decision would not have been in my favor. Bullheaded, I went anyway, lying to and ignoring my mom’s constant text messages to update my position. After the movies when I arrived home, my mom stood firm blocking the doorway and asked where I was. Ignoring her, I pushed through her stance and went straight to bed. Both of us knew I lied to her and ever since it has been difficult for her to believe me when I say anything. Even to this day she constantly asks questions on my whereabouts. My relationship with her has been weakened to the extent
For the parents, it is troublesome since it causes them to have weak relationships with their sons or daughters. Looking back to the past couple of years, I regret being rebellious. Nowadays, I the relationship between my parents and I is distant, but, when family moments occur, I resent the times when I planned to puncture the relationship further. When teens rebel, their actions create distrust between their parents which results in making the parents more protective than previously. The teens become enraged and choose to rebel and lie to a greater extent, widening the gap between parents and child, thus creating a downward spiral effect. Regaining trust is difficult once lost. I know from experience. A summer night I left with friends to watch a movie without informing my parents, knowing their decision would not have been in my favor. Bullheaded, I went anyway, lying to and ignoring my mom’s constant text messages to update my position. After the movies when I arrived home, my mom stood firm blocking the doorway and asked where I was. Ignoring her, I pushed through her stance and went straight to bed. Both of us knew I lied to her and ever since it has been difficult for her to believe me when I say anything. Even to this day she constantly asks questions on my whereabouts. My relationship with her has been weakened to the extent