Write 13 pages with APA style on How Much Love Should Parents Give to their Child. It is the parents’ job to love their children, but it is not their job to love them too much and spoil them. Children should learn how to be independent. they should experience being hurt and committing mistakes. Overparenting usually brings about detrimental outcomes. An overprotected and overindulged child will eventually think that his/her parents love him/her too much because s/he is not capable of doing things on his/her own, or that s/he needs their supervision because otherwise s/he will be put at risk. In other words, overparenting becomes contrary to the most essential task of parents—to cultivate a strong self-image and motivate independence. Jerome Kagan, a Harvard psychologist studying personality, has illustrated clearly that what produces restless children is parents lingering and sheltering them from traumatic or stressful situations (Sandas, 2010, 102). He discovered that babies who were born ‘excessively excitable’ have a tendency to deal more effectively with life, and display a more optimistic attitude if their parents granted them the opportunity to think and act on their own (Sandas, 2010, 102). Infants and kids require continuous guidance and care, but they do not need persistent hovering (Mamen, 2005). This essay tries to answer the question, how much love should parents give to their child?

Too much love is described in several ways. Parents who love endow their children with warmth, care, attention, and quality time and adequately meet their physical, emotional, and mental needs. Parents who love excessively become entangled in the everyday activities and experiences of their children. Parents who love to do everything they can to be the finest parents while acknowledging that it is not possible to be perfect or immaculate (Clinton & Sibcy, 2012).&nbsp.Parents who love excessively overindulge, overprotect, and over-parenting their children in an attempt to drive out their worries over being exceptional parents, or to compensate for their own childhood adversity.