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AS a child were you overprotected?

Sister Jean 2012/10/29 02:18:15
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  • -Kezzi Evanescence- 2012/11/05 19:11:10
    no
    -Kezzi Evanescence-
    +1
    Not really
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  • sglmom 2012/11/01 06:11:59
    no
    sglmom
    +1
    Nope ..
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  • MX9 2012/10/30 16:52:15
    yes
    MX9
    +2
    i still am >.>
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  • Sinister Ken Doll™ 2012/10/30 16:05:08
    no
    Sinister Ken Doll™
    +2
    not at all
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  • ♛Littlɘ Ǫuɘɘn~ƿɦɐɘϯ 2012/10/29 21:58:01
    no
    ♛Littlɘ Ǫuɘɘn~ƿɦɐɘϯ
    +2
    Quite the opposite.
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  • SlaveWaterNymph 2012/10/29 21:37:03
    no
    SlaveWaterNymph
    +2
    wasnt protected at all.... how i got hurt quite a bit in my life. Thanks family.
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  • Red Branch 2012/10/29 17:59:01
    no
    Red Branch
    +2
    Nope, it was about right.
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  • rand 2012/10/29 16:10:14
    no
    rand
    +2
    I ran relatively free in my bare feet. I biked 4 miles alone to go swimming and nearly blew my head off when I combined the powder of numerous TNT firecrackers for a big bang. Those were the good old days, for sure.
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  • D D 2012/10/29 15:40:12
    yes
    D D
    +1
    I was on a 1/2 inch leash. I had no freedom or privacy.

    Just recently my father asked why my husband didn't "take the reins" when I was taking too many sleeping pills. I told him because I am 45 now and make my own decisions. I am not a kid anymore. You cannot just step in and "take the reigns". This is how my parents are. They controlled my life. As soon as I was 18 I was out of there!

    I am no longer taking sleeping pills (ambien).
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  • mrdog 2012/10/29 15:36:27
    no
    mrdog
    +2
    But protected... bark
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  • Barefooted Nana ∞ijm♥∞AFCL 2012/10/29 15:08:26
    yes
    Barefooted Nana ∞ijm♥∞AFCL
    +3
    Pretty much.......
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  • Peewee 2012/10/29 14:42:00
    no
    Peewee
    +2
    Thank goodness NO! I was barefooted from snow to snow, never in the house.
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  • American Nate 2012/10/29 14:01:29 (edited)
    no
    American Nate
    +3
    nope, and I was good, so they trusted me more.
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  • Amy ♥ not so furious ♥ 2012/10/29 13:50:10
    no
    Amy ♥ not so furious ♥
    +3
    not at all....
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  • Barefoot Peace and Love∞ijm... 2012/10/29 13:41:52
    yes
    Barefoot Peace and Love∞ijm♥☮♥∞
    +3
    very!
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  • BJFuller☥ 2012/10/29 13:07:35
    None of the above
    BJFuller☥
    +2
    it depended but i didnt have a problem with it so much
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  • Dave In Cali 2012/10/29 12:49:46
    no
    Dave In Cali
    +3
    Nope. I was a latchkey kid. My parents taught me to cook and clean as soon as I could read and write. I didn't wear a helmet to cross the street, and I never once set the house on fire or chopped off my friends' fingers with a weed whacker.

    My wife is a product of over-protection - which she would tell you herself - and the result was naivete, which led to her pregnancy as a 17 year old. When she realized all of the truths she had NOT been told, it led to disenfranchisement.

    The world is a hard place. It's harder if you go into it unprepared.
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  • Rave 2012/10/29 12:49:04
    no
    Rave
    +2
    Maybe a bit under-protected. Exposed to a lot of terrible things at a young age, forced to make hard decisions and take risks.
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  • patrick.bonacoscia 2012/10/29 12:03:36
    yes
    patrick.bonacoscia
    +2
    I was yes and because of that I have bad relations with my parents. I had to fight my way out of teenage and that kind of overprotecting parents don't want to let their children become adults.

    I still was lucky cause I did successfully get a job, apartment and independence quite early but that was though,
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  • Panloker 2012/10/29 11:17:54
    yes
    Panloker
    +3
    I wouldn't say I was sheltered but very over protected, I couldn't even have a babysitter unless it was my grandmother or a few selected aunts because they didn't trust anyone enough to watch me, I wasn't even allowed to ride my bike to the end of the driveway and we lived in a isolated area where there was no traffic at all and everyone knew each other. I felt very restricted when I seen what they other kids were allowed to do compared to what I was.
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  • casey mahoney 2012/10/29 08:27:46
    no
    casey mahoney
    +3
    Wish I had been. It would have been nice to have my mother protect me in things that mattered like purity and boundaries.
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  • JenSemPa 2012/10/29 06:39:09 (edited)
    no
    JenSemPa
    +2
    In our house, if your arm fell off, it stayed off unless you figured out a way to put it back on!

    And if we misbehaved, we were more likely to get a knockout than a timeout!
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  • littlebuffalo55TBA 2012/10/29 06:30:18
    no
    littlebuffalo55TBA
    +2
    No....within reason I was allowed to explore and grow.
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  • Elizabeth 2012/10/29 05:33:47
    yes
    Elizabeth
    +2
    yea and its already annoying -_-
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  • hatter 2012/10/29 05:27:36
    no
    hatter
    +3
    We were free to roam around all day where ever at age five with no supervision. Those were different times in the US.
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  • gregaj7 2012/10/29 05:16:59
    no
    gregaj7
    +2
    Nor was I under-protected.
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  • kent 2012/10/29 04:59:37
    no
    kent
    +2
    We were expected to learn how to deal with risk.
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  • Emma's Dilemma 2012/10/29 04:39:34
    yes
    Emma's Dilemma
    +3
    Yes, but it's for the best. There's some real weirdos out there.
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  • falling from the moon 2012/10/29 04:38:47
    yes
    falling from the moon
    +2
    my parents are just very very very very and di i say very protected on everything we do....... but i love um and i know they do it because they love us.......
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  • Jdogg 2012/10/29 04:18:20
    no
    Jdogg
    +2
    I wasn't
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  • DuncanONeil 2012/10/29 04:04:30
    no
    DuncanONeil
    +2
    Absolutely not! I even got spanking before I got home. Out on the street even!
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  • Dagon 2012/10/29 03:41:28
  • Piper 2012/10/29 03:28:37
    no
    Piper
    +3
    Not really, considering the whole view of it. I was raised going to Southern Baptist churches, and was afraid to even have my own thoughts or opinions for about the first 13yrs of my life. In the meantime, I got to wander alone a lot, even in when we lived in Germany.
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  • ☂cinderella.dress.in.yellow☂ 2012/10/29 03:23:06
    None of the above
    ☂cinderella.dress.in.yellow☂
    +2
    In some cases yes but mostly my mother was .
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  • Cricket 2012/10/29 03:18:01
    no
    Cricket
    +2
    Not at all.
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  • Fashionable60s 2012/10/29 03:01:00 (edited)
    None of the above
    Fashionable60s
    +3
    Abused and neglected but I made it into adulthood successfully and in another country not my birth country.
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  • Sister ... Fashion... 2012/10/29 03:08:22
    Sister Jean
    +1
    sorry
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  • Fashion... Sister ... 2012/10/29 03:10:58
    Fashionable60s
    +1
    Thanks, Sis. I became very strong but I'd rather be less strong and more loved by my parents, being the first born. It was not meant to be. I get all the love that I missed and needed and still need from my dearest husband so I am very lucky.
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  • sonofason 2012/10/29 03:00:03
  • bags the Indigenous Guru 2012/10/29 02:58:34
    no
    bags the Indigenous Guru
    +2
    Actually, I find the mere thought rather funny.
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