Overprotectiveness, a Thief of Dignity and Potential Ronnaye Gay ENG/100 08/11/2020 Denise Wolff Overprotectiveness, a Thief of Dignity and Potential Throughout life, people begin to understand that everyone is not nice, and everyone does not have one’s best interest at heart. It is understood as early as elementary school that children can be cruel. As life progresses more lessons are learned about people. Cruel children can turn into cruel teenagers and even cruel adults. These cruel individuals can make life difficult on the people that they bully. In the article “The Dignity of Risk Going to College”, the author (Jackie Schwabe) makes this point known as she provides a realization about herself and her child. Jackie realizes that trying to protect her child can cause more harm than good (Schwabe, 2019). I agree with Jackie’s stance because being an overprotective parent can rob a child or their dignity and potential future. First, the author views overprotectiveness as being a robber of dignity. Dignity is gained through understandings one’s worth and value. Jackie reveals that if a child is not able to make his or her own mistakes then this will rob them of their dignity (Schwabe, 2019). Not having the ability to take pride in one’s accomplishments will eventually become a dignity there. No accomplishments will more than likely lead to the child feeling as if he or she cannot be able to complete tasks. Secondly, the author makes known that over protectiveness can prevent a child from their potential future. Overprotective parents limit their child’s understanding of themselves (Schwabe, 2019). If the parent is always there to make save the day, then the child will never comprehend what they are able to do well and own their own. For example, if a parent always puts on a child’s clothing and undresses them then the child will never learn how to do such tasks on their own. They will always need the assistance of the parent to dress and undress them. They are never given the opportunity to learn how to complete such tasks on their own. As a result, the child will always be dependent on the parent and will lose the potential of taking care of themselves in the future. In conclusion, the author brought up a few points that one can agree with. An overprotective parent may feel that they are doing good, but their overprotectiveness is preventing the child from thriving. An overprotective child will lose the ability to obtain dignity and to reach their full potential in the future. References Schwabe, J. (2019). The Dignity of Risk Going to College. Exceptional Parent, 20-22.