Parents usually have the best intentions – like protecting their children from life's difficulties and preparing them for adulthood. However, as with many other aspects of parenting, results do not always match intentions. Overprotective parents usually want to protect their children from harm, pain, failure, unhappiness, bad experiences, rejection, and disappointment (Lindsey 1). However, parents need to understand that overprotective parenting has certain side effects. Parents believe they are doing their children a favor by keeping them safe without realizing that this parenting style can have serious effects on children, such as depriving children of the essential skills they need to have healthy personalities and cope the life. problems. Although some will say that monitoring their children day in and day out is the way to go, overprotective parenting is crippling, especially for children later in adolescence. Overprotective parents will negatively influence their children's well-being and character development by fostering dependency, provoking rebellion, and leading to bullying. Promoting dependency will have a negative impact on a child's well-being and character development. Additionally, projecting fear of letting a child do things on their own is detrimental to their mental health. Overprotective parents create ongoing situations that their children struggle to escape from, until eventually there is no escape because the fears become part of the pattern of the child's way of thinking. child (“Overprotective Parents – Is This Your Parenting Style?” 9). . Children of overprotective and rigid parents fail to learn from their mistakes and, as a result, fail to become independent. These parents who live in a state of d...... middle of paper ...... can make a child a target of bullies. "Overprotective parents can make a child a target for bullies. Np, nd Web. May 5, 2014. "Overprotective parents causing impaired social development in children. "Overprotective Parents Causing Impaired Social Development in Children. PreventDisease.com, August 29, 2011. Web. May 1, 2014. “Overprotective Parents." Web Journal Article, January 12, 2011. Web, May 5, 2013. “Putting Parents where they belong: outside the classroom." Post, March 21, 2006. Web. March 20, 2014. "How Helicopter Parents Affect Their Kids. overprotective parents: you are really wrong Your children. HelloGiggles Bad News Overprotective parents, you are really ruining your children. Comments. Np, May 6, 2014. Web. April 9, 2014. “Living Room.” Saloncom RSS. Np, and Web. March 26. 2014.