Hyper Parents and Coddled Kids

The video “Hyper Parents and Coddled Kids” was very interesting to me, because I do see this occurring in our society. I do not see it to the extent that it was shown in the video, but I do see it occur a little bit in my hometown. With my own childhood, I think my parents would do anything for me and my siblings, but on the other hand they did not spoil us. They put us into structured activities to help us learn respect, responsibility, commitment, and independence, but they did not put us into activities to help “build our resume”. I think some parents are too worried about competing against other families and having the “perfect child” that they do not teach important values, such as respect, responsibility, commitment and independence and they end up spoiling them. Parents want the best for their children. They want their children to have what they didn’t have. The Baby Boomer generation didn’t have the opportunities that their children could have. Baby Boomers decided to have fewer children than their parents, and mother’s started working, which gave them the opportunity to give their children what they didn’t have. Wanting to give their children more opportunity leaded to pressuring, and spoiling their children and the concept of the “hyper parent”.