TruStar Consulting – Parental Over-involvement
February 1, 2010
Parental Over-involvement
By Marilee Jones
When we step into a young person’s life and dominate, making the decisions and deflecting responsibility, we actually hurt their path into adulthood. Childhood is the time of experimenting, when roles are tried on and discarded, values tested and changed, when failure is a healthy option and the best teacher. Just as keeping a child hidden away from the world to protect them only hurts their socialization in the end, becoming overly involved in their college process robs them of the chance to know themselves better, to have faith in their own choices, to develop the legs that must hold them in the world.
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