Hyperparenting

The problem of hyper-parenting is mainly due to the competitive education environment in Singapore and fear which creates over protectiveness. Hyper-parenting used to describe a style where in the intolerably competitive new e-world parents strive to micromanage and interfere in every detail of their kid’s lives to craft the perfect childhood for them, worrying that their child will underperform. I am inclined to think that the problem of hyper-parenting is largely evident in my society-Singapore. A line of argument is that the competitive education environment in Singapore and the structure of our education is root of the problem. Our education system is such that the quest for knowledge feeds the competition for certificate of proficiency and grades, which students partake in so that they can eventually emerge as future leaders. Question is who are these children who are likely to secure positions of pre-eminence in society in future? Many parents will broadly agree that they are among the cream of the crop. As such, many chose to believe that helping their children in getting a head start ahead of their peers is crucial. This is often seen in the Primary One Registration Exercise annually. Due to the registration system where priority is given to a child whose parents volunteered in the school and has given at least 40 hours of service, some hyper-parents chose to engage in community service in these notorious schools to ensure a placement in these schools which they place confidence in providing their children a higher quality education for them to excel academically. Another prominent example is that parents immensely filled their kid’s schedules with tuitions so that they are equipped with knowledge which caused them to constantly rush from activity to activity, unknowingly causing these children to feel pressurized. In the United States, however, part of hyper-parenting is engaged due to daily assignments having a weightage on their