I need help with overprotective parents?

[Zoe]

"More and more studies have authenticated that children of overprotective parents are risk aversive, have difficulty making decisions, and lack the wherewithal to become successful in life. Furthermore, children of overprotective parents cannot deal adequately with hardships and other frustrations of life. In other words, they have very low tolerance for frustration- they crumble at the first sign of frustration.

Oftentimes, overprotective parents believe that they are doing the best for their children. It is their intention that their children have the best that life could offer. Children of overprotected parents are often sheltered from the "harsher" "more difficult" and "less desirable" aspects of childhood. These children are often not free to indulge in unsupervised activities like other children as their parents are of the school that the best activities are supervised activities. They are not assigned household chores and other responsibilities because their parents contend that such are an anathema to a carefree childhood.

Overprotective parents are invasive in other ways. They solve problems for their children that the latter are often capable of solving themselves. They infantilize their children by making them feel incapable of charting their own course. In fact, overprotective parents are making their children extremely dependent and infantilized beyond appropriate ages."

I suggest taking a look and reading some of these sites. Then once you've read up on the consequences of over protective parents. Make like a project of sorts. With a page full of web sites you used for research and then MAKE your parents pay attention and show them you little project.
I suggest if you do this make sure to include things they have done over the years and even know proving they are over protective.

http://gmwilliams.hubpages.com/hub/Child...or-Failure

http://hellogiggles.com/bad-news-overpro...-your-kids
http://www.fictionpost.com/f5/over-shelt...irls-4098/