Parenting & Mental Health
Obstacles Build Skills
Dr. Deborah Dumont
Researchers surveyed almost 300 students and found that helicopter parenting violated three of children's universal psychological needs: autonomy, competence, & relatedness, thus resulting in higher levels of depression (Schiffron et al., 2014).
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A study of 317 university students specifically linked overinvolvement with mental health issues and found students of helicopter parents were more likely to be medicated for anxiety and/or depression (LeMoyne & Buchanan, 2011).
Julie Lythcott- Haims: Author, Speaker, Activist & Former Tenured Dean of Freshman at Standford University
"The point is to prepare the kid for the road, instead of preparing the road for the kid."
Julie Lythcott-Haims
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Connection Between Overparenting & Mental Health
Three Types of Overparenting
How Parents Impact Kids
Three Factors That Point to Overparenting
You are the bows from which
your children as living arrows
are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon
the path of the infinite, and
He bends you with his might
that His arrows
may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's
hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow
that flies, so He loves also the
bow that is stable."
Kahil Gibran, The Prophet
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"And a woman who held a babe
against her bosom said, Speak
to us of Children.
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And he said:
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Your children are not your
children. They are the sons and
daughters of Life's longing for
itself.
They come through you but not
from you.
And though they are with you
yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but
not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but
not their souls.
For their souls dwell in the house
of tomorrow, which you cannot
visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like
you.
For life goes not backward nor
tarries with yesterday.