Overprotective parents

My parents guided us to learn how to prepare food, wash clothes at age 10 and other important things of living on your own. They explained at high school graduation move out or go to college preferably out of the city and away from them. If went to college, we were allowed to return until college graduation.

My parents are control-freaks rather than overprotective.

My parents were never Over protective. How ever I knew a kid whose parents were very very overprotective.
He was always loud and stupid when he was away from them. Doing a lot of bad things.
I'm not sure how he is now, but he is probably much worse.
His brother got a 14 year old pregnant when he was 19. He went to jail for grand theft and he uses heavy drugs.

So from my point of view. If you are overprotective your kids will lash out doing everything the couldn't do when they're older.

Hah, what a joke. What will having a job do to make your parents less protective? Having a job doesn't mean you're "grown up".


What.

When I was in High school my parents would give me a hard time. But not so much any more. If my parents found out about my hentai collection then there would some problems though. lol

Well, i have two moms, lesbians to be exact, and for every nagging comment you get from yours, or every time they scold you about being safe or that you shouldn't do something. just multiply that by 2, twice the mom, twice the protectiveness.

Well let me get this out of the way. I love both of my parents a great deal. However when I was growing up with them I believe that they were entirely too overprotective and sheltering. I now believe that in some ways (because of being home schooled; not allowed to hang out with certain friends ect) I was unprepared to head into public school for junior high. It was awkward and I had no one to turn to when I needed answers. I couldn't go to my parents for answers about sex, what to do with drugs, or even career choices or things to study. They were there for me, but they didn't have any answers I could rely on. Religion played a large role in justifying simple "it's wrong" answers and the like. Consequently I had a very stressed and awkward adolescence growing up, and even made some poor choices.

If I could go back and do it again knowing what I do now I wouldn't fight with, or challenge my parents. I'd simply save money working, wait until I was 18 or so, and then just move out on my own, or apply to some colleges further away and leave. There is nothing wrong in doing so once you are of legal age, and there is nothing wrong with doing so before hand if you have abusive parents. Mine were not abusive, but they didn't do the best job in encouraging me creatively, or helping me with problems in life. Not to say that they were lazy, they just didn't want to tell me things, or grant me certain freedoms because of how strict they were (unecessary rules, curfews, restrictions ect ect ect..) Of course even trying to have a girl friend was extremely hard, and because of the religious side they would always punish me when they discovered my porn (which happened a few times by accident). It was tough, but it didn't have to be. If I ever have kids (and my wife and I have talked about it) we are going to do things different. We're going to raise a smart child, someone well equipped for the world, we will encourage them, answer their questions with practical solutions, give them advice and let them have enough freedom to choose what they please with their time (which hopefully if we do a good job won't be hard drugs or crime lol).

Been a revel for most of my life, but now I appreciate some of their nagging and crap. It made into the person I am now lol. Parents are just prone to be overprotective of kids. I mean first of one them gave birth to you.

I was lucky to have extremely accepting parents, they would let me and my bro do just about anything as long as it wouldn't maim us. The experience after all, is worth the pain.

Well it worked for my case. My overprotective mom decided to cut me some slack after I managed to get myself a job and start to support my own expenses. I believe that is proving to them we are 'growing up'.

It might not work for everyone, but I think it certainly is a valid solution, rather than typing, "Hah, what a joke". Like that would mother fucking help, genius.

Proving that you can support yourself is the best way I guess...but some will still be over protective even after you managed to get a proper job...If that's the case you need to tell them politely that you don't need their full protection anymore...