A 30-year-old woman is sitting in her therapist’s office, talking about her inability to manage life. She is disorganised, has poor time management skills, cannot make decisions, is easily overwhelmed, has no direction in her life and is filled with anxiety.
A young adult woman just graduated from university and gets her first job. She comes down with a stomach bug and her mom calls her boss for her to tell her she can’t come into work.
A high school student shares that her teacher gave her less than an A on her assignment and her parents request a meeting at the school and demand to know why.
A preteen girl found out she has a project due in four days along with another assignment and she forgot. She is distraught and her mother offers to do the entire project for her.
A 2-year-old child is excited for her birthday because it is going to be an extravagant event with pony rides, jumping castles and princesses. Her parents couldn’t really afford all that, but everyone is doing it, so they said that they had to.
A child was just born and her parents vowed to love her and give her the life of her dreams. They hovered over her day and night from the time she was little, right through into adulthood. Now they sit dumbfounded why their daughter who they bent over backward for, did everything for, smothered her in love and helped her out of every life troubling situation, can’t hold down a job, is late for every appointment, still asks for money for food, has relationship issues, mental health issues, is overwhelmed with anxiety and sitting in a counsellor’s office.
Continue reading and discover what all these people have in common.
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hyper-parenting, helicopter-parenting, responsibility,
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